Charles Sumner: “Compendiously expressed, it was non-intervention by Congress with…”

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Compendiously expressed, it was non-intervention by Congress with Slavery in the States, and its prohibition in all the national domain.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner summarizes the principle of non-intervention in slavery while prohibiting it in national territories.

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