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But I undertake to affirm that no usage, professional or social, can give any apology for joining the pack of the Slave-Hunter.
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Sumner asserts that no justification exists for participating in the act of capturing escaped slaves.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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