Adopt it, and you put millions of fellow-citizens under the ban of excommunication, you hand them over to a new anathema maranatha, you declare that they have no political rights “which the white man is bound to respect,”--thus repeating in new form the abomination that has blackened the name of Taney.
Sumner warns against a proposal that would disenfranchise millions and perpetuate racial inequality, drawing parallels to past injustices.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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