Charles Sumner: “The whole pretension is one of the false glosses fastened upon the…”

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The whole pretension is one of the false glosses fastened upon the National Constitution by Slavery, which must now be sloughed off.

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Massachusetts

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He argues that slavery has distorted the interpretation of the Constitution.

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Charles Sumner: “The whole pretension is one of the false glosses fastened upon the National Constitution by Slavery, which must now be…”