Charles Sumner: “Not that I love the Union less, but Freedom more, do I now, in…”

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Not that I love the Union less, but Freedom more, do I now, in pleading this great cause, insist that Freedom, at all hazards, shall be preserved.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes the importance of freedom over the preservation of the Union in his advocacy for civil rights.

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Charles Sumner: “Not that I love the Union less, but Freedom more, do I now, in pleading this great cause, insist that Freedom, at all…”