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Charles Sumner: “But since a great right is denied, the children of the Free States, over whose cradles has shone the North Star, owe it…”

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But since a great right is denied, the children of the Free States, over whose cradles has shone the North Star, owe it to themselves, to their ancestors, and to Freedom itself, that this right shall now be asserted to the fullest extent.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner calls for the assertion of rights for the children of Free States in the face of oppression.

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