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Everywhere within the limits of the United States, and of each State or Territory thereof, all persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave.
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Sumner asserts that all persons are equal before the law in the United States, prohibiting slavery.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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