The latter, as is well known, denied the sovereignty of the people in the Territories, but he agreed, heart and soul, in the pretension that the right to enslave a fellow-man is an incident of sovereignty, wherever it exists.
Sumner critiques the contradiction of claiming popular sovereignty while endorsing the right to enslave others.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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