Charles Sumner: “Spare, if you please, the worm it employs; but do not, I entreat you…”

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Spare, if you please, the worm it employs; but do not, I entreat you, yield amnesty to this murderous wickedness.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner urges against yielding to the violence of slavery while expressing compassion for those manipulated by it.

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Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.

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Charles Sumner: “Spare, if you please, the worm it employs; but do not, I entreat you, yield amnesty to this murderous wickedness.”