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For a brief moment they might brave the scorn and contempt poured upon them; but they must fail to have the sensibilities of men, or they would at last shrink before the finger-point of the civilized world.
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Sumner argues that the moral failings of those supporting slavery would ultimately lead to their downfall in the eyes of the world.
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