Charles Sumner: “A pretended power was organized, in the form of a Confederacy, with…”

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A pretended power was organized, in the form of a Confederacy, with Slavery as the declared corner-stone.

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Massachusetts

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In this statement, Sumner critiques the Confederacy, identifying slavery as its foundational principle.

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Charles Sumner: “A pretended power was organized, in the form of a Confederacy, with Slavery as the declared corner-stone.”