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Instead of throttling the monster, we submitted to feed it with new concessions.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Instead of throttling the monster, we submitted to feed it with new concessions.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner laments that instead of confronting slavery, concessions were made that only empowered it.
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