The Slave-Hunter who drags his victim from Africa is loathed as a monster; but I defy any acuteness of reason to indicate the moral difference between his act and that of the Slave-Hunter who drags his victim from our Northern free soil.
Sumner condemns both African and domestic slave hunters as morally equivalent in their actions.
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Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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