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This power must be suppressed at every cost; and if its suppression here endangers Slavery elsewhere, there will be new motive for determined action.
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Sumner calls for the suppression of treasonous powers, even if it risks slavery in other areas.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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