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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