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The nine balls that slew our departed brother came from Slavery.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner directly links the violence that led to the soldier's death to the institution of slavery, emphasizing its destructive nature.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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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