Charles Sumner: “It seems to me, however, that no occasion for denouncing an…”

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It seems to me, however, that no occasion for denouncing an institution which is the ruin and disgrace of our nation can be inopportune.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that there is never an inappropriate time to denounce slavery, which he views as a national disgrace.

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