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In support of Slavery, it is the habit to pervert texts and to invent authority.
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Sumner highlights the manipulation of religious texts to support the institution of slavery.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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