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Before the Worcester Convention I was ready to declare that the people were only waiting to have the word Emancipation strongly pronounced to repeat it with the aggrandizement of a hundred thousand votes.
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Sumner believes that the public is ready to embrace the idea of emancipation if it is boldly presented.
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