On the record
It is now more than three years since I deemed it my duty, in the Senate, to expose the Barbarism of Slavery.
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Sumner reflects on his commitment to exposing the horrors of slavery in the Senate.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
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