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If there is any outrage at this moment in the form of law, and actually within our reach, it is what I now hold up to the indignation of the country and of mankind.
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Sumner calls attention to a pressing legal outrage that he believes should be condemned by society.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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