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It is scouted by reason, and disowned by universal jurisprudence.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is scouted by reason, and disowned by universal jurisprudence.”
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Sumner asserts that the doctrine supporting slave importation is rejected by reason and law.
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