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He argued deeply into the cluster of ideas
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we call free labor ideology.
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But then he laced the speech, over and over,
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with personal attacks on southerners,
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personal attacks on southern slave holders.
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He singled out especially senator Andrew Butler of south carolina,
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And he used Butler's alleged fathering of children
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by a slave woman as representative of what Sumner said
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was a common practice across the south.
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You could not imagine
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laying a bigger taboo on your fellow southern senators than this one.
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He described Butler as,