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On the sea an execrable piracy, the trade in slaves, to the national scandal, was still tolerated under the national flag.
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Sumner condemns the hypocrisy of allowing the slave trade under the national flag.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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