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But how emphatically disgraceful for a government to license Slavery, that crime of crimes, even though the consideration in return for the license be very great, and the pay very tempting!
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Sumner passionately denounces the government's licensing of slavery as the ultimate moral disgrace.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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.
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