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It is a task worthy of a soul so elevated, so pure, and so disinterested, to begin the revolution in Virginia, to prepare the way for the emancipation of the negroes.
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Sumner advocates for the emancipation of enslaved people in Virginia, highlighting the moral imperative of the cause.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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