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The Presidential election turned on Slavery, and nothing else.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The Presidential election turned on Slavery, and nothing else.”
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Sumner asserts that the Presidential election was fundamentally about slavery, underscoring its centrality in politics.
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