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By these successive steps, sustained by judgments of the highest tribunal, it appears, as in a diagram, that the right of Trial by Jury is secured to the fugitive from service.
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Here, Sumner asserts that the right to a jury trial is guaranteed to individuals escaping from slavery, illustrating a legal protection for fugitives.
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