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I ask, Sir, shall our sons, who are offering their lives for the preservation of our institutions, be degraded to slave-catchers for any persons, loyal or disloyal?
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Sumner questions the morality of making soldiers act as slave-catchers, advocating for their dignity.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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!
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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