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But Congress, undertaking to support Slavery at the national capital, enacts that persons may be deprived of liberty there without any presentment, indictment, or other judicial proceedings.
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Sumner criticizes Congress for enacting laws that allow for the deprivation of liberty without due process in the context of slavery.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
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