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It is Slavery that has taken the life of our beloved Chief Magistrate; and here is another triumph of its Barbarism.
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Sumner attributes the assassination of the Chief Magistrate to the barbarism of slavery, highlighting its destructive impact.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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