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The slaveholders will all read this speech, and will all be profited by its clear, certain, and convincing truths.
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Sumner believes that slaveholders will benefit from the truths presented in a specific speech about slavery.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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