Practically it affixes to the whole traffic, wherever it exists,--not merely in Washington, within the immediate sphere of the legislative act, but everywhere throughout the Slave States, whether at Richmond, or Charleston, or New Orleans,--the brand of Congressional reprobation.
Sumner argues that the Congressional act condemns the slave trade throughout the Slave States, not just in Washington.
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