By this bill, if it is to pass, you would allow all over the South the employment by the slaveholder of his slaves to carry the mail, and to receive compensation for the labor of such slaves out of the Federal Treasury.
Sumner warns against a bill that would allow slaveholders to exploit enslaved individuals for federal compensation.
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