Here is South Carolina secretly disclosing her military weakness, and its ignoble occasion: thus repudiating in advance the vaunt of her Senator, who finds strength and gratulation in Slavery rather than in Freedom.
Sumner critiques South Carolina's reliance on slavery for strength, suggesting it reveals a deeper military weakness.
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