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This compact, made in the unequivocal language of a barbarous age, has long since ceased to exist; and now, in our own day, Russia disdains to own a slave.
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Sumner notes that a particular compact from a barbarous age is now obsolete, drawing a parallel with contemporary attitudes towards slavery.
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