Charles Sumner: “Neither has ever labored to place the National Government openly…”

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Neither has ever labored to place the National Government openly, actively, and perpetually on the side of Freedom.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner claims that certain parties have not worked to align the government with the cause of freedom.

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Charles Sumner: “Neither has ever labored to place the National Government openly, actively, and perpetually on the side of Freedom.”