I hear a strange, discordant voice saying that all this proceeds not from Slavery,--oh, no!--but from Antislavery,--that the Republicans, who hate Slavery, that the Abolitionists, are authors of this terrible calamity.
Sumner criticizes the notion that abolitionists are to blame for the calamities caused by slavery, defending their cause.
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Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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