I take the liberty of saying--and I wish that my words may reach his distant head-quarters--that every fugitive slave he surrenders will hereafter rise in judgment against him with a shame which no possible victory can remove.
Sumner expresses that every fugitive slave surrendered will serve as a moral indictment against the military leader responsible.
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