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I cannot tell you how pleased I am with your late speech on the ‘Barbarism of Slavery.’ It makes a lustrum in the Senate, and an era in the history of the Antislavery cause.
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Sumner expresses his admiration for a speech that significantly advances the antislavery movement.
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