Thus are our Slave-Masters an enormous Corporation, or Joint-Stock Company, by the side of which the United States Bank, with its petty thirty millions of capital, and without any peculiar representation, is dwarfed into insignificance.
Sumner compares the power of slaveholders to a large corporation, emphasizing their significant influence over the economy.
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