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It is natural that Senators who pretend, that, by the Law of Nature, man may hold property in man, should find this pretension in the Constitution.
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Sumner critiques senators who claim that natural law supports slavery, arguing that such beliefs are unfounded.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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