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As a man who has been deprived of a large number of persons he once claimed as slaves, I protest against such a course.
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Sumner, having lost former slaves, protests against policies that would harm their welfare.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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