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The whole question is opened between Immediate Emancipation and Prospective Emancipation,--or, in other words, between doing right at once and doing right at some future, distant day.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The whole question is opened between Immediate Emancipation and Prospective Emancipation,--or, in other words, between…”
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Sumner contrasts immediate and prospective emancipation, advocating for immediate action.
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