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That great criminal is easily detected,--still erect and defiant, without concealment or disguise.
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Sumner identifies the true source of the tragedy as a powerful and unrepentant force, which he labels as a criminal.
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At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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