Charles Sumner: “Whigs and Democrats,--I use the old names still,--professing to…”

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Whigs and Democrats,--I use the old names still,--professing to represent conflicting sentiments, concur in being representatives of the Slave Power.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques both Whigs and Democrats for representing the interests of the Slave Power.

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Charles Sumner: “Whigs and Democrats,--I use the old names still,--professing to represent conflicting sentiments, concur in being…”