Charles Sumner: “Any other interpretation dwarfs the great Amendment, and permits…”

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Any other interpretation dwarfs the great Amendment, and permits Slavery still to linger among us in some of its insufferable pretensions.

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Massachusetts

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He warns that any diluted interpretation of the amendment would allow slavery to persist in some form.

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Charles Sumner: “Any other interpretation dwarfs the great Amendment, and permits Slavery still to linger among us in some of its…”