I finished the reading of your great speech in the car on my way hither, and, permit me to say, thank you for it with my whole soul,--notwithstanding the qualified commendations of it that may have found their way into some of the Republican papers.
Sumner expresses gratitude for a powerful speech he read while traveling, despite mixed reviews from some Republican papers.
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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.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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