Seeing this proposition as I do, I must speak frankly, as on other occasions, in exposing the crime against Kansas, or the infamy of that enactment which turned the whole North into a hunting-ground where man was the game.
Sumner condemns a specific legislative proposal, likening it to past injustices in Kansas.
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