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If Slavery be unconstitutional in the national capital, and if it be a Christian duty, sustained by constitutional examples, to ransom slaves, then your swift desires will not hesitate to adopt the present bill.
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Sumner argues that if slavery is unconstitutional, then there is a moral obligation to support legislation to free slaves.
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