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It is not all for Freedom; nor is it, like Cæsar’s wife, above suspicion.
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Sumner uses a metaphor to suggest that the party's commitment to freedom is questionable.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
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