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Our fellow-men are in bonds: they must be relieved.
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Sumner asserts the moral imperative to free those who are enslaved, highlighting the need for compassion and action.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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