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You cannot enact the slave into a freeman by bill in Congress.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “You cannot enact the slave into a freeman by bill in Congress.”
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Sumner asserts that legal measures cannot change the status of a slave to a freeman, highlighting the limitations of legislation.
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