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President, I conclude as I began, with my heart’s gratitude to those brave citizens who again in Arkansas lift the national banner.
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Sumner expresses gratitude towards citizens in Arkansas for their loyalty to the national cause.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
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.
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