There are many who forget that the larger portion of the people at the South are non-slaveholders, interested equally with ourselves--nay, more than we are--in the overthrow of that power which has so long dictated its disastrous and discreditable policy.
Sumner highlights that many Southern non-slaveholders also seek to dismantle the oppressive power of slavery.
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