For myself, I believe you cannot too often assert a prohibition of Slavery, nor too often assert human rights, wherever they may be called in question; and especially do I believe in the importance of such assertion when you are laying the foundations of a new community.
Sumner believes in the necessity of consistently asserting the prohibition of slavery and the defense of human rights in new communities.
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