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Laborious, studious, exemplary in private life, and fertile in pretexts, this venerable character has afforded the formula by which men have voted for Slavery, while making professions for Freedom.
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Sumner describes a prominent figure who hypocritically supports slavery while claiming to advocate for freedom.
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