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Thus the same ocean, in the same year, bore to the Western Continent the Pilgrim Fathers, consecrated to Human Liberty, and also a cargo of slaves.
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Sumner contrasts the Pilgrim Fathers' mission for liberty with the cargo of slaves brought by another ship in the same year.
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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.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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