Since the outbreak of the Rebellion this statute has been constantly adduced by our enemies abroad, as showing that we are no better than Jefferson Davis and his slavemonger crew; for Slavery never shows itself worse than in the slave-hunter.
Sumner argues that the statute has been used by enemies of the U.S. to equate it with the Confederacy.
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