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The negro said he would sooner be killed on the spot than go back with his master, even if he knew he would not be punished.
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Sumner recounts a black boy's determination to resist being returned to slavery, highlighting the desperation for freedom.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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