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These things I dwell upon as incentives and tokens of an existing public sentiment, rendering this Act practically inoperative, except as a tremendous engine of horror.
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In this statement, Sumner reflects on public sentiment making the Fugitive Slave Act ineffective.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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