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He has applied to my colleague every expression calculated to wound the sensibilities of an honorable man, and to draw down upon him sneers, obloquy, and hatred, in and out of the Senate.
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Sumner condemns the harsh language used against his colleague, highlighting the emotional impact of such attacks.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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