I hear a strange, discordant voice saying that all this proceeds not from Slavery,--oh, no!--but from Antislavery,--that the Republicans, who hate Slavery, that the Abolitionists, are authors of this terrible calamity.
Sumner criticizes the notion that abolitionists are to blame for the calamities caused by slavery, defending their cause.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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