Charles Sumner: “How futile to think that there can be any consent to the establishment…”

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How futile to think that there can be any consent to the establishment of a Slave Power taken from our Republic!

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses disbelief that anyone could consent to the establishment of a Slave Power in the Republic.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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

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

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

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Charles Sumner: “How futile to think that there can be any consent to the establishment of a Slave Power taken from our Republic!”