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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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Sumner denounces the hypocrisy of a republic that professes freedom while allowing slavery to persist.
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