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Would that with tongue or pen I could adequately expose the enormity of this system, involving, as it does, the precepts of religion, the dictates of common sense, the suggestions of economy, and the most precious sympathies of humanity!
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses a desire to reveal the profound moral implications of a certain system affecting humanity.

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