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The Americans of the North, who calculate even to the beatings of the heart, have summed up this multifold crime in five axioms.
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Sumner critiques the moral implications of slavery, summarizing its crimes against humanity in a concise manner.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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