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Thus, through two strong appetites, one for gain and the other for power, was Slavery stimulated; but the conspiracy was strong only through Slavery.
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Sumner explains how the dual desires for profit and power fueled the institution of slavery in America.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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