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Let it be made, also, that the country and mankind may see how Slavery in all its influences is barbarous,--barbarous in peace, barbarous in war, barbarous always, and nothing but barbarism.
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Sumner declares slavery to be inherently barbarous in all contexts, emphasizing its brutality.
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