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Sumner’s valuable life will be spared until he shall witness the complete overthrow of the execrable system that now brutalizes our brethren in bondage, and brutalizes their oppressors, and disgraces our country.
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Sumner expresses hope that he will live to see the end of slavery and the liberation of oppressed individuals.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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