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There is, or ought to be, a head to every body; and whether you will or not, the slaveholder and the slave look to you as the best embodiment of the Antislavery idea now in the councils of the nation.
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Sumner asserts that both slaveholders and slaves look to leaders for guidance in the anti-slavery movement.
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