I presume you will receive a thousand letters expressive of the satisfaction and delight that your speech upon the Suffrage question has given; and yet I must add mine, for it is but rarely that one feels that a moral subject is exhausted, and you appear to have accomplished this astonishing result.
Sumner shares his satisfaction with a colleague's comprehensive treatment of a moral issue in their speech.
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