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Self-defence is the first law of Nature; and unless this law is temporarily silenced, as all other law is silenced there, you cannot condemn the proceedings in Kansas.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Self-defence is the first law of Nature; and unless this law is temporarily silenced, as all other law is silenced…”
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Sumner defends the right of self-defense as a natural law in the context of the Kansas situation.
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