Charles Sumner: “And here, let me say, is the only security for Slavery in the Slave…”

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And here, let me say, is the only security for Slavery in the Slave States, as for Freedom in the Free States.

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Massachusetts

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He claims that the same principles that protect slavery also protect freedom, highlighting a duality in rights.

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Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

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Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “And here, let me say, is the only security for Slavery in the Slave States, as for Freedom in the Free States.”