The great mass of the people have become, or are becoming, what is now called conservative on the Slavery Question; they forget, amid their business and their many calls, the horrors, the crime, and the Barbarism of Slavery.
Sumner critiques the growing conservatism regarding slavery among the populace, urging remembrance of its horrors.
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