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I have read your closing remarks on the Nebraska Bill with the greatest admiration, and most heartily indorse every word and sentiment.
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Sumner expresses his admiration and support for remarks made about the Nebraska Bill, reflecting his commitment to anti-slavery principles.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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 larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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