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It is Liberty that will conduct the freedman to the fields, protect him in his toil, and secure to him all its fruits.
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Sumner asserts that true liberty will empower freedmen in their work and ensure they reap the benefits of their labor.
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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.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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