If I continue to unfold this strange, eventful story, it will be to exhibit the direct and constant intervention of Congress for the ransom of slaves; but the story itself is an argument against Slavery, pertinent to the present occasion, which I am not unwilling to adopt.
Sumner indicates that the story of Congress's intervention for the ransom of slaves serves as a powerful argument against slavery itself.
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