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The age of Chivalry has gone. An age of Humanity has come. The Horse, whose importance more than human, have the name to that early period of gallantry and war, now yields his foremost place to Man. In serving him, in promoting his elevation, in contributing to his welfare, in doing him good, there are fields of bloodless triumph, nobler far than any in which Bayard or Du Guesclin conquered.

— Charles Sumner

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If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

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