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Not content with imparting to it a meaning which it cannot bear, the partisans of Slavery have given to this clause an origin and history having no foundation in truth.
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In this statement, Sumner condemns the distortion of a constitutional clause by pro-slavery advocates, asserting it lacks historical truth.
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