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Even if Congress be not ready to make an end of Slavery, it cannot hesitate to make an end of all Fugitive Slave Acts.
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Sumner argues that Congress should end all Fugitive Slave Acts even if it is not ready to abolish slavery entirely.
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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!
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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