Charles Sumner: “Finally, it is to secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our…”

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Finally, it is to secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity: but Slavery sacrifices these blessings.

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Sumner asserts that slavery sacrifices the blessings of liberty for future generations.

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