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You must permit me, a perfect stranger, to express my cordial thanks to you for the noble, scathing speech on the ‘sum of villanies’ with which you enriched our literature on Monday last in the Senate.
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Sumner expresses gratitude for a powerful speech that critiques slavery, calling it a significant contribution to literature.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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