Charles Sumner: “The blindness which makes him insensible to wrong so transcendent…”

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The blindness which makes him insensible to wrong so transcendent naturally makes him insensible to the lesser wrong by which it is maintained.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner discusses how the blindness to major wrongs can also lead to insensitivity to lesser wrongs.

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

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