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If, however, we go still further, and seek the individual authors of this odious measure, the forerunner of the Rebellion, it is easy to point them out.
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Sumner indicates that the individual authors of the Fugitive Slave Act can be identified.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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