But all these musty, antediluvian, wicked statutes, of which you have seen a specimen, took their place at once in the national legislation, and under their supposed authority slaves multiplied, and Slavery became a national institution.
Sumner condemns the outdated and oppressive statutes that contributed to the establishment of slavery as a national institution.
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