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At present he is only a recent chattel, awaiting your justice to be transmuted into manhood.
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Sumner describes the plight of freedmen as they await justice to transform their status from property to human beings.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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