Charles Sumner: “I doubt if the North has been punished enough to induce it to forego…”

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I doubt if the North has been punished enough to induce it to forego the attempt of trying again to circumvent God.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner doubts whether the North has faced sufficient consequences to deter future attempts to defy moral principles.

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Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “I doubt if the North has been punished enough to induce it to forego the attempt of trying again to circumvent God.”