It is not natural to suppose that people who have claimed property in their brethren, God ’s children,--who have indulged that “wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man,”--will become at once the kind and just legislators of freedmen.
Sumner argues that those who once enslaved others cannot be expected to legislate justly for them.
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