The Slave States are far inferior to the Free States in population, wealth, education, libraries, resources of all kinds, and yet they have taken to themselves the lion's share of honor and profit under the Constitution.
Sumner argues that the Slave States disproportionately benefited from the U.S. Constitution despite their inferiority in various aspects.
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