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The most formidable of all the evils which menace the future of the United States springs from the presence of the blacks on their soil.
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Sumner warns that the presence of black individuals in the United States poses a significant threat to the nation's future.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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