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Charles Sumner: “Of course, fellow-citizens, you are now ready to see that the corruptions by which the present Administration is…”

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Of course, fellow-citizens, you are now ready to see that the corruptions by which the present Administration is degraded are the natural offspring of slaveholding immorality.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He points out that the current administration's corruption stems from the immorality associated with slavery.

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