And, Sir, what “just compensation” shall be voted for renouncing that Heaven-defying pretension, too disgusting to picture, which, trampling on the most sacred relations, makes wife and child the wretched prey of lust and avarice?
Sumner condemns the moral degradation caused by slavery, particularly its impact on families.
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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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