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How often must I repeat that Slavery is the constant Rebel and universal enemy?
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Sumner insists that slavery is a persistent enemy of freedom and democracy.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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