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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At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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