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Such gigantic purchases, made at one time, or in the space of a few days, could have but one destination.
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Sumner asserts that large, rapid purchases of arms can only have one intended recipient.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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