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It is only when we regard Slavery in its essential elements, and look at its unutterable and unquestionable atrocity, that we fully comprehend the mingled folly and wickedness of this question.
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Sumner discusses the need to recognize the true horror of slavery to understand the urgency of its abolition.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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