Charles Sumner: “Urged as sanctioning Popular Sovereignty, it was a swindle of…”

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Urged as sanctioning Popular Sovereignty, it was a swindle of slave-masters in their asserted rights.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the bill, while claiming to uphold popular sovereignty, actually serves the interests of slaveholders.

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Charles Sumner: “Urged as sanctioning Popular Sovereignty, it was a swindle of slave-masters in their asserted rights.”