I do not adduce it for present criticism, but simply to enroll it in all its stages--beginning with the earliest pretension of South Carolina, continuing in violence, and ending in yet other pretensions--among the special instances where the Barbarism of Slavery stands confessed even in official conduct.
Sumner critiques the moral failings of slavery and its impact on South Carolina's history.
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