The slave-trade received solemn sanction, and England pocketed the dishonest profits,--just as now a kindred offence on a grander scale is to receive solemn sanction, and we who sanction it are to pocket the profits in political power.
Sumner condemns the acceptance of profits from the slave trade as morally corrupt, comparing it to contemporary political actions.
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