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Among the influences and agencies that helped forward the present Rebellion, and set fellow-citizens in bloody conflict with each other, the Dred Scott decision must always be held in dismal memory.
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Sumner links the Dred Scott decision to the causes of the Civil War, marking it as a significant historical error.
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