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If he has not used the word, he has vindicated the thing, in one of its most odious features.
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Sumner argues that even without explicitly mentioning slavery, the senator supports its harmful aspects.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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