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To my mind nothing can be clearer, as a proposition of Constitutional Law, than that everywhere within the exclusive jurisdiction of the National Government Slavery is impossible.
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Sumner asserts the impossibility of slavery under the jurisdiction of the National Government, emphasizing constitutional law.
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