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There is an argument against it which has especial importance at this moment, when the Fugitive Act is made the occasion of new assault on State Rights.
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Sumner points out the significance of the Fugitive Slave Act in the context of state rights debates.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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