Here is a measure, founded, as I have already demonstrated, on three different texts of the Constitution, upheld by three unassailable supports, and also in essential harmony with the Union itself; and yet we are told that it destroys the sovereignty of the States.
Sumner defends a measure he believes is constitutional and beneficial, countering claims that it undermines state sovereignty.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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