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I have read your last speech in the Senate on ‘The Barbarism of Slavery’ with admiration and gratitude.
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Sumner expresses admiration and gratitude for a speech addressing the issue of slavery.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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