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The wrong he arraigned was against eight hundred thousand persons in distant islands, to whom the people of Great Britain were bound by no peculiar ties, and who were to them only fellow-men.
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Sumner highlights the moral obligation to address the wrongs faced by distant populations, emphasizing shared humanity.
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