Charles Sumner: “Offensive as that speech proved to the Slave-Masters, this one is ten…”

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Offensive as that speech proved to the Slave-Masters, this one is ten times worse.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner compares the offensive nature of his latest speech to a previous one, suggesting it is even more provocative to slaveholders.

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

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

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

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Charles Sumner: “Offensive as that speech proved to the Slave-Masters, this one is ten times worse.”