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It was that hateful bargain by which Congress was restrained until 1808 from the prohibition of the foreign slave-trade, thus securing, down to that period, toleration for crime.
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Sumner condemns the compromise that delayed the prohibition of the foreign slave trade as a morally reprehensible agreement.
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