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In the face of this unutterable abomination, where impiety, cruelty, brutality, and robbery all strive for mastery, it is vain to assert humanity or refinement in its authors.
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Sumner condemns the moral failures of those who perpetrate slavery, highlighting the brutality and inhumanity involved.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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