If in time of peace all Fugitive Slave Acts were offensive, as requiring what humanity and religion both condemn, they must at this moment be still more offensive, when Slavery, in whose behalf they were made, has risen in arms against the National Government.
Sumner asserts that the Fugitive Slave Acts are even more reprehensible during a time of conflict instigated by slavery.
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