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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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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