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If I received from the people of Massachusetts any special charge, it was to use my best endeavors to secure the repeal of that act.
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Sumner expresses his commitment to repealing the Fugitive Slave Act as mandated by his constituents.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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