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It cannot be left to become the sport of sectional prejudice or wayward passion.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It cannot be left to become the sport of sectional prejudice or wayward passion.”
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He stresses that the process of Emancipation should not be influenced by regional biases or emotional reactions.
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