And now, Sir, when the conscience of mankind is at last aroused to these things, when, throughout the civilized world, a slave-dealer is a by-word and a reproach, we, as a nation, are about to open a new market to the traffickers in flesh that haunt the shambles of the South.
Sumner criticizes the United States for potentially reopening the slave trade at a time when global consciousness is shifting against it.
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