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Charles Sumner: “To its repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and its imperious demand that Kansas shall be surrendered to Slavery, we…”

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To its repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and its imperious demand that Kansas shall be surrendered to Slavery, we reply, that Freedom shall be made the universal law of all the national domain, without compromise, and that hereafter no Slave State shall be admitted into the Union.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner emphasizes the importance of freedom over slavery in the context of the Missouri Compromise.

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