Charles Sumner: “Slavery was also the mainspring of the belligerent power now arrayed…”

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Slavery was also the mainspring of the belligerent power now arrayed against the Union,--therefore, in the name of the Union, to be destroyed.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner claims that slavery was the driving force behind the opposition to the Union and must be eradicated for its preservation.

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Charles Sumner: “Slavery was also the mainspring of the belligerent power now arrayed against the Union,--therefore, in the name of the…”