It is the idea which combined our fathers on the heights of Bunker Hill,--which carried Washington through a seven years' war,--which inspired Lafayette,--which with coals of fire touched the lips of Adams, Otis, and Patrick Henry.
Sumner connects the idea of freedom to historical figures and events that shaped the nation.
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Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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