A court properly inspired, and ready to assume that just responsibility which dignifies judicial tribunals, would at once declare Slavery impossible at the national capital, and set every slave free,--as Lord Mansfield declared Slavery impossible in England, and set every slave free.
Sumner compares the potential judicial declaration of freedom for slaves in the national capital to a historic English case that abolished slavery in England.
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