Charles Sumner: “Great as seems the present peril, there was peril greater far, while…”

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Great as seems the present peril, there was peril greater far, while it was sinking year after year under the rule of Slavery.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner contrasts the current dangers with the greater threat posed by slavery in the past.

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