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Charles Sumner: “Arise now, or an inexorable slave-driving Tyranny will be fastened upon you.”

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Arise now, or an inexorable slave-driving Tyranny will be fastened upon you.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner warns that failure to act will result in the establishment of a tyrannical system.

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