For a measure like this, required not only by simplest justice, but by uniform practice, and by constitutional principles of slaveholders themselves, we may be ashamed to confess gratitude; and yet I cannot but rejoice in this great good.
Sumner reflects on the necessity of a measure that aligns with justice and constitutional principles regarding slavery.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
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