On the record
If Slavery be national, if there be any power in the National Government to uphold this institution,--as in the recent Slave Act,--it must be by virtue of the Constitution.
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Sumner questions the constitutional basis for the National Government's power to uphold Slavery, particularly referencing the Slave Act.
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