And then again, in another place, by roundabout language, he admits, that, according to the Dred Scott decision, which he declares that he “approves,” the people of a Territory cannot, by any legislation, confiscate slave property, or impair the “Constitutional right” of the master to this property in the Territory.
Sumner critiques the Dred Scott decision, arguing that it prevents territories from confiscating slave property.
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