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Are you, who have just emancipated yourselves from this obligation, ready to renew it, and to commit again an inexpiable crime?
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Sumner challenges the morality of renewing obligations to return fugitive slaves after emancipation.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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