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Would he ever have proposed such injustice, but for the prejudices nursed by Slavery?
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Sumner questions the motivations behind a senator's proposal, linking it to the prejudices fostered by slavery.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
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