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Rock the pall-bearers,--the room of the Supreme Court of the United States the Potter’s Field,--the corpse the Dred Scott decision!
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Sumner uses metaphor to illustrate the death of the Dred Scott decision and its impact on American law.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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