I know not how the indifference to Slavery exhibited by so many could be exposed more effectively than when he said of a political antagonist thus offending, “I suppose the institution of Slavery really looks small to him.
Sumner critiques the indifference to slavery by highlighting a political opponent's trivialization of the issue.
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