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But all these, when set in motion, make Slavery impossible.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But all these, when set in motion, make Slavery impossible.”
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Sumner states that certain actions and movements make the existence of slavery impossible.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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.
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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