I have great faith in plain-spoken truth; and the railing and gnashing of teeth in anger by the Southern preservers of the Union, and what John Randolph denominated as the white slaves of the North, who second them, is a plain confession of the truth as you have spoken it.
Sumner expresses his belief in the power of truth and critiques the Southern defenders of the Union.
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Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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