Charles Sumner: “Constitutionally, Slavery has always been an outlaw, wherever that…”

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Constitutionally, Slavery has always been an outlaw, wherever that provision of the Constitution was applicable.

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Sumner declares that slavery has always been unconstitutional wherever the relevant constitutional provision applies.

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Charles Sumner: “Constitutionally, Slavery has always been an outlaw, wherever that provision of the Constitution was applicable.”