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You ought not to do it, because, besides its intrinsic and fatal injustice, you will deprive the country of what it most needs, which is labor.
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Sumner argues that the injustice of colonization would deprive the nation of essential labor.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
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