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But their exceptional virtues cannot save the essential wrong which I expose.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But their exceptional virtues cannot save the essential wrong which I expose.”
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Sumner argues that the virtues of a few cannot justify the overarching evil of slavery.
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