Once for the Wilmot Proviso, which asserted the power of Congress over the Territories, and then for a pretended Popular Sovereignty, which denied this power, he became the pendulum between Freedom and Slavery, and, thus swinging, imparted motion to a sham Democracy.
Sumner illustrates the inconsistency of a political figure who oscillates between supporting freedom and slavery.
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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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