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With a lofty and relentless logic he tears away the covering veil of sophistry with which the Southern members had sought to conceal the naked iniquity of the transactions in Kansas.
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Sumner critiques the deceptive arguments used by Southern politicians to justify slavery and violence in Kansas.
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