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This metropolis, bearing a venerated name, will be exalted, its evil spirit cast out, its shame removed, its society refined, its courts made just, its revolting ordinances swept away, and even its loyalty assured.
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Sumner envisions a transformed metropolis free from the shame of slavery and injustice.
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