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Slavery ought to fall, and Missouri be saved.
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Sumner advocates for the abolition of slavery as a means to save Missouri during the Civil War.
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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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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