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The movement against Slavery is from the Everlasting Arm.
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Sumner believes that the movement against slavery is divinely inspired and powerful.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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