Courts, which should be asylums of Liberty, have been changed into strongholds of Slavery; and the Supreme Court of the United States, by final decision as shocking to the Constitution as to the public conscience, proclaimed itself tutelary stronghold of all.
Sumner criticizes the transformation of courts from protectors of liberty to enforcers of slavery.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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