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Charles Sumner: “Will it, and War is chastised from the Commonwealth of Nations, as Slavery has been chastised from municipal…”

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Will it, and War is chastised from the Commonwealth of Nations, as Slavery has been chastised from municipal jurisdictions by England and France, by Tunis and Tripoli.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner draws parallels between the abolition of war and the abolition of slavery.

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