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Impious toward God, and infidel toward man, it is disowned by conscience and reason alike; nor is there any softness of argument or of phrase by which its essential wickedness can be disguised.
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Sumner condemns the moral bankruptcy of slavery, asserting that it is universally recognized as wicked by conscience and reason.
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