By such profane devices men sought to establish that relation, whose beauty they perceived, though they failed to discern, that, by the ordinance of God, without any human stratagem, it justly comprehended all their fellow-men.
Sumner reflects on the limitations of human attempts to create bonds that are already divinely ordained among all people.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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