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Charles Sumner: “Its foul attorneys, reeking with Slavery, will have their letter of license as ambassadors of Slavery, to rove from…”

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Its foul attorneys, reeking with Slavery, will have their letter of license as ambassadors of Slavery, to rove from court to court, over foreign carpets, poisoning the air which has been nobly pronounced too pure for a slave to breathe.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner denounces the ambassadors of slavery who would corrupt the dignity of foreign courts.

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