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The pretext was worthy of the legislation, and both pretext and legislation were in harmony with the authors, who drew their motives of conduct from Slavery and nothing else.
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Sumner asserts that both the pretext and the legislation of the Fugitive Slave Act were aligned with the motives of slavery.
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