It was sad enough to meet the champions of Slavery, as in other days they openly vindicated the monstrous pretension and claimed for it the safeguard of the Constitution, insisting that Slavery was national and Freedom sectional.
Sumner reflects on the troubling defense of slavery by its proponents in Congress.
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