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When I state this conclusion, I feel that I stand on supports that cannot be shaken.
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Sumner expresses his conviction that his conclusions are well-founded and reliable.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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