Slavery is a perpetual effort to evade this law by compelling the labor of others; and such an attempt at evasion is naturally supported by the pretension, that, because the African is inferior, therefore he may be enslaved.
Sumner argues that slavery is an attempt to escape moral laws by claiming racial superiority, which he disputes.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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