It is a REVOLUTION,--not beginning with the destruction of a Bastile, but destined to end only with the overthrow of a tyranny differing little in hardship and audacity from that which sustained the Bastile of France,--I mean the Slave Power of our country.
Sumner likens the struggle against slavery to a revolution, drawing parallels with the French Revolution.
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