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It is true, I trust, that its agents love Freedom and hate Slavery; and have they not a right to do so?
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Sumner expresses hope that the agents of the Emigrant Aid Company are motivated by a love for freedom.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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