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Charles Sumner: “To sustain Slavery, it is now proposed to trample on free speech.”

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To sustain Slavery, it is now proposed to trample on free speech.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that supporting slavery requires suppressing free speech.

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