On the record
These Acts may be viewed as part of the system of Slavery, and therefore obnoxious to the judgment which Civilization is accumulating against this Barbarism; or they may be viewed as independent agencies.
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Sumner discusses the dual nature of the Fugitive Slave Acts in relation to the institution of slavery.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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