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They lay down a rule from which there is no appeal; and this rule is not merely in the statutes, but in the Constitution.
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Sumner asserts that the rules regarding loyalty are definitive and rooted in the Constitution.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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