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Thus, accidentally, Congress assumed the odious power to organize slave-hunting.
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Sumner condemns Congress for inadvertently granting power to pursue fugitive slaves.
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At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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