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Beneath its beneficent folds, wherever it is carried, on land or sea, Slavery will disappear, like darkness under the arrows of the ascending sun,--like the Spirit of Evil before the Angel of the Lord.
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Sumner poetically illustrates the transformative power of the Union Flag in abolishing slavery.
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