It can sweep all out of existence, precisely as it can remove any other obstruction to the national defence, and all this by virtue of a power as indisputable as the power to raise armies or to suspend the Habeas Corpus.
Sumner argues that Congress has the power to eliminate slavery as it does with other national defenses.
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