This whole measure of annexion, and the spirit with which it is pressed, find a parallel in the Kansas and Nebraska Bill, and in the Lecompton Constitution, by which it was sought to subjugate a distant Territory to Slavery.
Sumner draws a parallel between the annexation measure and previous legislative attempts to impose slavery in new territories.
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