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Thank God, under influence of the struggle for national life, and in obedience to its incessant exigencies, the people have changed, and in nothing so much as on Slavery.
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Sumner expresses gratitude for the societal changes regarding slavery that have emerged from national struggles.
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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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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