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As daring navigators they are unsurpassed, sailing six or seven hundred miles in open canoes.
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Sumner highlights the remarkable navigational skills of certain indigenous peoples.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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