One question, and only one, rises in our path,--and this simply because the national representatives have been so long drugged and drenched with Slavery, which they have taken in all forms, whether of dose or douche, that, like a long-suffering patient, they are still sunk under its influence.
Sumner critiques the influence of slavery on national representatives, likening it to a drug.
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