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As well chase him with the baying of the blood-hound as with the tongue of the advocate.
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He likens the pursuit of a fugitive slave by advocates to the pursuit by bloodhounds, highlighting the brutality of the act.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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