This Legislature, having these personal qualifications, placing them in the rank of a privileged few, are elected upon a representative basis as unequal as the rotten-borough system of England in its most rotten days.
Sumner compares the South Carolina legislative system to the rotten-borough system of England, highlighting its inequality.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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