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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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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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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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