As the gallant ship, voyaging on pleasant summer seas, is assailed by a pirate crew, and plundered of its doubloons and dollars, so is this beautiful Territory now assailed in peace and prosperity, and robbed of its political power for the sake of Slavery.
Sumner uses a maritime metaphor to describe the political assault on Kansas by pro-slavery forces.
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