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Meanwhile, for more than a generation, an assumption of Constitutional Law, hardly less baleful, had become rooted side by side with Slavery, so that the two shot up in rank luxuriance together.
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Sumner discusses the intertwined nature of constitutional law and slavery in American society.
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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.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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