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As Slavery assumes to be national, so, by an equally strange perversion, Freedom is degraded to be sectional, and all who uphold it, under the National Constitution, are made to share this same epithet.
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Sumner critiques the mischaracterization of Freedom as sectional while Slavery is deemed national in political discourse.
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