The assumption, that Slave-Masters, under the Constitution, may take their slaves into Territories and continue to hold them as in States, stands on two pretensions,--first, that man may hold property in man, and, secondly, that this property is recognized in the Constitution.
Sumner critiques the constitutional justification for slaveholders to bring slaves into territories.
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