Charles Sumner: “With similar reason it may be said, that it contains no power to make…”

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With similar reason it may be said, that it contains no power to make a slave, or to support a system of Slavery.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes that the Constitution similarly does not allow for the establishment of slavery.

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Charles Sumner: “With similar reason it may be said, that it contains no power to make a slave, or to support a system of Slavery.”