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Charles Sumner: “Against the Republican party are arrayed three factions, differing in name, differing superficially in professions, but…”

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Against the Republican party are arrayed three factions, differing in name, differing superficially in professions, but all concurring in hostility to the Prohibition of Slavery in the Territories, and therefore all three Proslavery.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He critiques three factions opposing the Republican party, all of which support slavery in the territories.

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