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They regarded the cruel law for the return of fugitive slaves as an abomination in the sight of God and man.
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Blaine condemns the fugitive slave law, expressing its moral repugnance and its violation of human rights.
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Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
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