Charles Sumner: “The whole American nation, with all its wealth and all its glory, is…”

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The whole American nation, with all its wealth and all its glory, is flung as a holocaust before the shrine of this hideous idol.

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Massachusetts

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In this powerful statement, Sumner condemns the sacrifices made by the nation in service of slavery, likening it to a sacrificial offering.

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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Charles Sumner: “The whole American nation, with all its wealth and all its glory, is flung as a holocaust before the shrine of this…”