It views the leading men of the other section through the medium of its fear, its hatred, or its contempt, and can recognize no likeness, unless the features are distorted and the canvas is darkened, unless the countenance is wicked and the figure hideous.
Sumner critiques the distorted perceptions held by those who oppose abolitionists, emphasizing their fear and hatred.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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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