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Surely the wrong is not less wrong because gigantic; the evil is not less evil because immeasurable; nor can the duty of perpetual warfare with wrong and evil be in this instance suspended.
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Sumner asserts that the magnitude of the wrong of slavery does not diminish the moral obligation to fight against it.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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