Under their decrees private rights were overthrown; and I doubt not that my friend from Illinois has recently read the account of an extensive injustice in Texas, where private property to an almost incalculable amount was taken away by these unjust decrees.
Sumner discusses the injustices perpetrated by local decrees that led to the wrongful seizure of private property in Texas.
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