I claim nothing for myself; I may be weak; but, according to the measure of my abilities as God has given them to me, I enter a standing protest against that atrocious judgment, which was false in law, and also false in the history with which it sought to maintain its false law.
Sumner asserts his right to protest against the Dred Scott decision, claiming it is fundamentally flawed.
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