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Above all, belligerent Slavery must not rear its crest as an independent power.
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Sumner insists that slavery must not be allowed to assert itself as a separate power.
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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 subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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