Charles Sumner: “Senators sometimes announce that they resist Slavery on political…”

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Senators sometimes announce that they resist Slavery on political grounds only, and remind us that they say nothing of the moral question.

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Sumner critiques senators who only oppose slavery on political grounds, urging a moral stance as well.

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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

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

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Charles Sumner: “Senators sometimes announce that they resist Slavery on political grounds only, and remind us that they say nothing of…”