Charles Sumner: “That measure was justly accepted as “appropriate legislation.” Without…”

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That measure was justly accepted as “appropriate legislation.” Without it Slavery would still exist in at least one of its most odious pretensions.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner defends the Civil Rights Law as necessary legislation to combat the remnants of slavery.

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

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

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

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

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Charles Sumner: “That measure was justly accepted as “appropriate legislation.” Without it Slavery would still exist in at least one of…”