The time will yet come when the boast of our fathers will be made a practical verity also, and Court or Congress, in the spirit of this British judgment, will proudly declare that nowhere under the Constitution can man hold property in man.
Sumner expresses hope that a future decree will affirm that slavery cannot exist under the Constitution, echoing the principles of justice.
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