The face of Nature may be blasted, the land may be struck with sterility, villages may be swept by floods of flame, and whole families entombed alive in its burning sepulchre; but all these evils are small, compared with the deep, abiding, unutterable curse from an act of national wrong.
Sumner contrasts natural disasters with the deeper curse of national wrongdoing associated with slavery.
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