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The original policy of our fathers in the restriction of Slavery was suspended, and this giant wrong threatened to stalk into all the broad national domain.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The original policy of our fathers in the restriction of Slavery was suspended, and this giant wrong threatened to stalk…”
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Sumner warns of the dangers posed by the suspension of the original anti-slavery policy of the nation's founders.
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