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The slave-trade, whose annual iniquity no tongue can tell, was placed for twenty years under safeguard of the Constitution, thus giving sanction, support, and increase to Slavery itself.
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Sumner condemns the constitutional protection of the slave trade, emphasizing its moral implications.
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