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Thanks to the immortal poet who has blasted forever this sickening enormity, and rendered its imitation impossible!
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Sumner expresses gratitude to a poet for highlighting the horrors of war, making it impossible to replicate such atrocities.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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