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What is Slavery itself but an enormous wholesale repudiation of all rights, all truths, and all decencies?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “What is Slavery itself but an enormous wholesale repudiation of all rights, all truths, and all decencies?”
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Sumner defines slavery as a profound violation of rights and decency.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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