I need hardly say that I share in the high admiration and satisfaction with which it is received by all intelligent persons here, except those few who have sold their souls for office, or who have not yet awoke from the political sleep of half a century.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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