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Then will the Barbarism of Slavery be repelled, and the pretension of property in man be rebuked.
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Sumner asserts that the existence of slavery must be challenged and condemned to promote freedom.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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