Such are things which in the judgment of these petitioners “the North and the South may honorably accede to,” while, in consideration of these impossible sacrifices, the fee of the Fugitive Slave Commissioners is modified, and it is declared that the Slave-Trade shall not be revived.
Sumner criticizes the petitioners' acceptance of compromises that undermine fundamental rights.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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