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Our statute-book should not be defiled by any such license.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Our statute-book should not be defiled by any such license.”
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Sumner insists that the statute-book should not contain any licenses for slavery.
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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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