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Even in our colonial days, there were Americans whose fate, while in the hands of these slave-masters, excited general sympathy.
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Sumner notes that even during colonial times, there were Americans whose plight under slave-masters garnered sympathy, highlighting early awareness of slavery's injustices.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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