How strange that words which hail the Angel of Human Liberation, with Liberty and Equality in her glorious train, should be invoked in support of a wicked tyranny, which, in the name of Popular Sovereignty, makes merchandise of our fellow-man!
Sumner criticizes the misuse of the Declaration's words to justify tyranny instead of liberation.
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