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Discerning the power, he confessed his dismay: let us confess our joy.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Discerning the power, he confessed his dismay: let us confess our joy.”
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Sumner expresses a shift from dismay to joy regarding the recognition of Congress's power over slavery.
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