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Such, Sir, is the argument, briefly uttered, against the constitutionality of the Slave Act.
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Sumner presents a concise argument against the constitutionality of the Slave Act, highlighting his legal reasoning.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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