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How lamentable that we should make Human Slavery the one sacred thing under the heavens!
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “How lamentable that we should make Human Slavery the one sacred thing under the heavens!”
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Sumner laments the moral failure of society in prioritizing human slavery above all else.
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