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I cannot support any bill that recognizes as right and proper any Fugitive Slave Act; and I shall therefore refuse to give it my sanction, if it comes to a vote upon the final passage in its present shape.
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Sumner expresses his refusal to support any bill that endorses the Fugitive Slave Act.
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