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But here again, if it may, so overwhelming is the claim of justice, it MUST.
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Sumner emphasizes the moral obligation of Congress to ensure justice for fugitive slaves.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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