If Congress can authorize the enlistment of slaves, as it indubitably can, it may at the same time authorize their enfranchisement, and by the same reason it may authorize the enfranchisement of their families,--and all this from the necessity of the case, and to prevent an intolerable baseness.
Sumner argues that if Congress can enlist slaves, it can also enfranchise them and their families, linking necessity to justice.
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