It should be a permanent and standard document on that subject, and be perpetuated through all coming time, that other generations may look at it and learn to hate Slavery and love Liberty.… Mind not what some timid croakers may say about being ill-timed or calculated to injure our Republican campaign.
Sumner argues for the importance of preserving a speech as a lasting document against slavery.
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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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