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Slavery is but a bundle of barbarous pretensions, from which certain persons are to be released.
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Sumner characterizes slavery as a collection of barbarous pretensions that must be dismantled.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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