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In advocating the cause of an oppressed people I have only acted according to my conscience.
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Sumner reflects on his actions in support of an oppressed people as a matter of conscience.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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