Senator Sumner’s speech was felt to be exhaustive of the Law of Nations which governed the case of the Trent, and is already ranked in Washington as a state paper upon the question of seizure and search worthy to be placed side by side with the despatches of Madison and Jefferson.
Sumner's speech is recognized as a comprehensive legal analysis relevant to international law.
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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
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