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Charles Sumner: “By the passage of the Nebraska Bill, and the Boston kidnapping case, the tyranny of the Slave Power is unmistakably…”

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By the passage of the Nebraska Bill, and the Boston kidnapping case, the tyranny of the Slave Power is unmistakably manifest, while at the same time all compromises with Slavery are happily dissolved, so that Freedom stands face to face with its foe.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns the Slave Power and celebrates the dissolution of compromises with slavery, advocating for freedom.

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