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President, it is not uncommon to hear persons among us at the North confess the wrong of Slavery, and then, folding the hands in absolute listlessness, ejaculate, “What can we do about it?” Such we encounter daily.
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Sumner critiques the inaction of those who acknowledge the wrong of slavery but do nothing to address it.
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