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Curiously enough, we find confirmation of the true principle, where you would little expect it, in that very Dred Scott decision which undertook to blast a race.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Curiously enough, we find confirmation of the true principle, where you would little expect it, in that very Dred Scott…”
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Sumner finds unexpected validation of civil rights principles in the Dred Scott decision, despite its negative implications.
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