Inspired by these principles, Congress can give no sanction to slavery by the admission of new slave States.

Nowhere under the Constitution can the Nation by legislation or otherwise, support slavery, hunt slaves, or hold property in man....

As slavery is banished from the national jurisdiction, it will cease to vex our national politics.

It may linger in the States as a local institution; but it will no longer engender national animosities when it no longer demands national support." The second part of Sumner's address dealt directly with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1860.

It is much less convincing and suggests more of the characteristics of the special pleader with a difficult case.