How vain, then, to adduce against confiscation and liberation, as war measures, an objection derived from the Constitution! and how vain, also, to offer a penal statute, under the Peace Powers of the Constitution, as a war measure!
Sumner critiques the use of constitutional objections against war measures like confiscation and liberation.
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