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Charles Sumner: “The Whigs of Massachusetts, so far as in them lies, must pronounce a similar sentence of disqualification upon all not…”

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The Whigs of Massachusetts, so far as in them lies, must pronounce a similar sentence of disqualification upon all not known to be against the extension of Slavery.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the Whigs of Massachusetts should disqualify those who do not oppose the extension of slavery.

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