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Against all such propositions, without considering their character, stands on the threshold one obvious and imperative objection.
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Sumner argues that there is a fundamental objection to the concessions being proposed.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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