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Not with whips and thongs would I scourge him from the land.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Not with whips and thongs would I scourge him from the land.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner expresses his belief in moral persuasion rather than violence to combat slavery.
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