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Then I ask you honestly now, whether, all laws of Congress being put out of the question, you would recommend to Massachusetts to pass a law to deliver up fugitives from slavery?
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Sumner challenges the idea of enforcing laws that would support slavery, emphasizing his moral stance against it.
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