Charles Sumner: “As well pursue the fugitive with the hired whip of the overseer as…”

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As well pursue the fugitive with the hired whip of the overseer as with the hired argument of the lawyer.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner compares the moral implications of hiring a lawyer to pursue a fugitive slave to hiring an overseer to do the same.

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Charles Sumner: “As well pursue the fugitive with the hired whip of the overseer as with the hired argument of the lawyer.”