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What it did was in compassion, generosity, and bounty,--not in satisfaction of a debt.
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Sumner distinguishes between acts of compassion and legal obligations in the context of compensation.
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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.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
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