But with you I rejoice in this triumph of Freedom, which is the first achieved in the National Government, since the recognition, by the earliest Congress under Washington, of the Ordinance prohibiting Slavery in the Northwestern Territory.
Sumner celebrates a significant victory for freedom in the context of the national government and its history.
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