Charles Sumner: “In vain you assert such “happy accidents.” In vain you show…”

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In vain you assert such “happy accidents.” In vain you show individuals who do not exert the wickedness of the law.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues against the idea that individual exceptions can justify the overall wickedness of slavery.

More from Charles Sumner

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

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Charles Sumner: “In vain you assert such “happy accidents.” In vain you show individuals who do not exert the wickedness of the law.”