Charles Sumner: “The present pretension of New Jersey belongs to the same school with…”

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The present pretension of New Jersey belongs to the same school with that abhorred and blood-bespattered pretension of South Carolina.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner connects New Jersey's current claims to the historical injustices associated with South Carolina's actions.

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

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Charles Sumner: “The present pretension of New Jersey belongs to the same school with that abhorred and blood-bespattered pretension of…”