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A friend handed me your great oration delivered in New York, and I am so favorably struck with its logic and patriotism that I am completely proselyted.
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Sumner shares his strong impression of a New York oration, indicating a shift in his views towards its logic and patriotism.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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