If there be any whose sympathies are not moved for the slave, who do not cherish the rights of the humble African, struggling for divine Freedom, as warmly as the rights of the white man, let him consider well that the rights of all are equally assailed.
Sumner calls for empathy towards enslaved individuals, emphasizing that the rights of all people are interconnected.
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