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It commits the great question of human freedom,--than which none is more sacred in the law,--not to a solemn trial, but to summary proceedings.
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Sumner critiques the handling of human freedom in legal proceedings, emphasizing its importance.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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