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Let us unite in purchasing a small estate where we may try the experiment to free the negroes and use them only as tenants.
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Sumner advocates for an experiment in freeing enslaved individuals by allowing them to be tenants on purchased land.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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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