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Charles Sumner: “By such happy restoration, made in good faith, the whole country would be replaced in the condition it enjoyed before…”

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By such happy restoration, made in good faith, the whole country would be replaced in the condition it enjoyed before the introduction of that dishonest measure.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner believes that restoring the original prohibition against slavery would benefit the entire country.

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