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True, Slavery will be for a short term only, for twenty-one years, if you please, but that is a long time for Slavery.
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Sumner critiques the temporary nature of slavery proposed in legislation, emphasizing its moral implications.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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