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There is no weapon in the celestial armory of Truth, no sweet influence from the skies, no generous word from human lips, which may not be employed.
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Sumner speaks to the power of truth and the various means by which it can be communicated.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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