Charles Sumner: “But this hateful pretension can do nothing but evil for civil society…”

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But this hateful pretension can do nothing but evil for civil society at home or for nations in their intercourse with each other.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the pretensions of slavery are harmful to both civil society and international relations.

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Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “But this hateful pretension can do nothing but evil for civil society at home or for nations in their intercourse with…”