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Charles Sumner: “For which reason the man who does not favor Liberty is to be adjudged impious and cruel.”

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For which reason the man who does not favor Liberty is to be adjudged impious and cruel.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that opposing liberty is morally reprehensible.

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