Slavery has seen its last triumph, and henceforth should receive no quarter.
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Sumner declares the end of slavery's dominance and calls for its complete rejection.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
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.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.





