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To call it “preliminary,” and on this ground set up apology for denial of trial by jury, is only another illustration of devices employed by Slavery to baffle the demands of Freedom.
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Sumner critiques the use of the term 'preliminary' to justify the denial of a jury trial in the context of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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