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Charles Sumner: To it the greater evils which have afflicted the country, the different perils to the Constitution, may all be traced.

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To it the greater evils which have afflicted the country, the different perils to the Constitution, may all be traced.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner attributes the country's greatest evils and constitutional perils to the Slave Power.

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