It is sometimes gravely urged, that, since the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the constitutionality of the Fugitive Act, there only remains to us, in all places, whether in public station or in private life, the duty of absolute submission.
Sumner argues against the notion of passive obedience to the Fugitive Act, asserting the need for active resistance.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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