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I will fly to our fellow-citizens in the Southern States; I will on my knees conjure them, in the name of humanity, to abolish a traffic which causes it to bleed in every pore.
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Sumner expresses a passionate call to Southern citizens to end the slave trade for humanitarian reasons.
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