Charles Sumner: “It is a strange infatuation which imagines that the Rebellion can be…”

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It is a strange infatuation which imagines that the Rebellion can be closed without the entire abolition of Slavery.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the abolition of slavery is essential to end the Rebellion, highlighting the intertwined nature of the two.

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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

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Charles Sumner: “It is a strange infatuation which imagines that the Rebellion can be closed without the entire abolition of Slavery.”