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To me it seems clear, that, under the Constitution, no person can be held as a slave on shipboard within the national jurisdiction, and that the national flag cannot cover a slave.
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Sumner argues that under the Constitution, no one can be enslaved on a ship within national jurisdiction.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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