With unsurpassed and touching magnanimity, it seeks to benefit the lowly whom your eyes have not seen, and who are ignorant even of your labors, while it demands and receives a self-sacrifice calculated to ennoble an enterprise of even questionable merit.
Sumner praises the selflessness of those involved in the antislavery movement, emphasizing its noble intentions.
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