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I rejoice that not alone on political grounds do you attack the system.
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Sumner appreciates that the speaker's attack on slavery is motivated by more than just political reasons.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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