Surely the law which stamped the slave-trade as piracy punishable with death had a different inspiration from that other law which secured immunity for the slave-trade throughout an immense territory, and invested its supporters with political power.
Sumner critiques the hypocrisy of laws regarding the slave trade, highlighting the moral inconsistency in their enforcement.
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