When this is done, I know not what other trials may be in wait for the unhappy African; but this I do know, that the Antislavery Enterprise will then have triumphed, and the institution of Slavery, as defined by existing law, will no longer shock mankind.
Sumner predicts the triumph of the antislavery movement and the end of slavery as a legal institution.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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