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To insist that a State can play the turtle now, as in the days when Slavery ruled, is to dishonor the Constitution, and to abandon the crowning victory over the Rebellion.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To insist that a State can play the turtle now, as in the days when Slavery ruled, is to dishonor the Constitution, and…”
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Sumner insists that states cannot revert to isolationist behavior after the Civil War.
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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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