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Charles Sumner: “Courts, which should be asylums of Liberty, have been changed into strongholds of Slavery; and the Supreme Court of the…”

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Courts, which should be asylums of Liberty, have been changed into strongholds of Slavery; and the Supreme Court of the United States, by final decision as shocking to the Constitution as to the public conscience, proclaimed itself tutelary stronghold of all.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner criticizes the transformation of courts from protectors of liberty to enforcers of slavery.

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