Charles Sumner: “It is not a measure of Abolition or Antislavery, or of philanthropy…”

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It is not a measure of Abolition or Antislavery, or of philanthropy, but a war measure, pure and simple.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner clarifies that the Emancipation Proclamation is strictly a war measure, not a philanthropic act.

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Charles Sumner: “It is not a measure of Abolition or Antislavery, or of philanthropy, but a war measure, pure and simple.”