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Genius, good sense, suffering, luxury, oppression, contumely, unprincipledness, and folly, each boon of nature, each wrong of man, had concurred, after more than a century of struggle, in necessitating a consummation.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

As we write, we are amazed at the enormity of its unprincipledness, and the large extent of its destructiveness.

From The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Carey, H. C. (Henry Charles)