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Charles Sumner: “I think all honest men must now be convinced that nothing is gained to Freedom by compromises.”

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I think all honest men must now be convinced that nothing is gained to Freedom by compromises.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that compromises do not benefit the cause of freedom.

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