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Should an evil hour arrive, when these ideas and promises are in peril, then let them find a breastwork, not in your hills, but in your hearts.
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Sumner urges his audience to find strength in their convictions during times of crisis.
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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.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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