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It is true that the same laws profess to punish the murder of a slave as a capital offence, and also to punish severely any mutilation or other cruel treatment of him.
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Sumner points out the hypocrisy in laws that punish the murder of slaves while denying them the right to testify.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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 devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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