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I deny the right, I acknowledge not the property.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I deny the right, I acknowledge not the property.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner asserts the illegitimacy of property rights in the context of slavery.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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