Charles Sumner: “Elsewhere it has claimed nothing but liberty to live; here it claims…”

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Elsewhere it has claimed nothing but liberty to live; here it claims license to rule, with unbounded empire at home and abroad.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that slavery seeks not just to exist but to dominate and control.

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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

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Charles Sumner: “Elsewhere it has claimed nothing but liberty to live; here it claims license to rule, with unbounded empire at home and…”