In former days there was one Kansas suffering under illegal power; there are now eleven Kansases suffering as that one; therefore, as eleven is more than one, so is the enormity of the present time more than the enormity in the day of Franklin Pierce.
Sumner draws a comparison between the suffering in Kansas during his time and the past, emphasizing the increased severity of the situation.
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