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But on this account he was only the more inexorable toward a wrong so cruel in all its influences.
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Sumner reflects on the moral resolve required to confront cruelty and injustice.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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