I wish to keep within bounds; but unanswerable facts, accumulating in fearful quantities, attest that the social system so much vaunted by honorable Senators, which we are now asked to sanction and extend, takes its character from this spirit, and, with professions of Christianity on the lips, becomes Cain-like.
Sumner argues that the social system upheld by some Senators is hypocritical, masking its violent nature behind Christian rhetoric.
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Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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