Charles Sumner: “Against this righteous supremacy all pretensions of States must…”

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Against this righteous supremacy all pretensions of States must disappear, as darkness before the King of Day.

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Sumner poetically describes the supremacy of human rights over state pretensions.

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Charles Sumner: “Against this righteous supremacy all pretensions of States must disappear, as darkness before the King of Day.”