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Propositions for the repeal of obnoxious laws sustaining Slavery were stifled.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Propositions for the repeal of obnoxious laws sustaining Slavery were stifled.”
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Sumner notes the suppression of proposals aimed at repealing laws that supported slavery.
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