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I was chosen to the Senate for the first time immediately after the passage of the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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Sumner reflects on his election to the Senate following the controversial Fugitive Slave Act.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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