Charles Sumner: “In all our populous cities the great rights of speech and of the press…”

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In all our populous cities the great rights of speech and of the press have been assailed precisely as in the Slave States.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the rights of speech and press are under attack in both Free and Slave States.

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Charles Sumner: “In all our populous cities the great rights of speech and of the press have been assailed precisely as in the Slave…”