But, Sir, those arrested happen to be of another color,--not a color which appeals to his sympathies, but a color that allows him to belittle their arrest and incarceration,--that enables him to say here in the Senate that our Government have done everything that they could do, all that was necessary.
Sumner critiques the indifference of government officials towards the arrest of individuals based on their race.
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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.
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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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