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Therefore it is that Kansas is left a prey to the Propagandists of Slavery, while the whole Treasury, the Army, and Navy of the United States are lavished to hunt a single slave through the streets of Boston.
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Sumner condemns the government's prioritization of hunting down a single fugitive slave over the chaos in Kansas.
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