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Omsbus. So, You have accessed entry 180. PR 2314, certificate number 4 616. the caning of Charles Sumner.

In the name of the Constitution

which has been outraged, of the laws trampled down, of justice banished, of humanity

degraded, of peace destroyed, of freedom crushed to earth, and in the name of the Heavenly Father whose service is freedom, I make this last appeal.

Now we, you know, you and I like to on this program really teach the controversy. We like to we like to

To tell both sides of any story of every story. And maybe there's more than two sometimes.

Sometimes there's multiple sides. Sometimes there's seven sides.

There could be a whole Rashaman situation going on in Charles Sumner's chambers?

No, in the case of Charles Sumner, I think I'm going to at least give a little preview of the show.

We're going to come down on one side of this issue.

We typically do not teach both sides of the American Civil War

without generally preferring a side and that's how this show is going to go.

We're going to we're going to choose sides.

Well clearly we're pro-union and abolition as I believe we have unfailingly been.

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