Charles Sumner: “But I confess frankly that I look with more hope and confidence to…”

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But I confess frankly that I look with more hope and confidence to liberation than to confiscation.

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He expresses a preference for liberation over confiscation as a more hopeful and effective strategy in the war.

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Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “But I confess frankly that I look with more hope and confidence to liberation than to confiscation.”