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With modesty, and yet with firmness, let me add, Sir, it offends against the Divine Law.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “With modesty, and yet with firmness, let me add, Sir, it offends against the Divine Law.”
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Sumner asserts that the Slave Act also violates divine principles.
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