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How could any one, who had not measured all the length and breadth of slaveholding depravity, as I had not, have brought such a thing within the range of imagination or prophecy?
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In this quote, Sumner questions the ability to imagine the depths of slaveholding depravity without personal experience.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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