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Charles Sumner: “The latter point has occupied much of his thought, and the newspapers do not go too far in recording his repeated…”

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The latter point has occupied much of his thought, and the newspapers do not go too far in recording his repeated declarations, which I have often heard from his own lips, that slaves finding their way within the national lines are never to be reënslaved.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner highlights the President's commitment to not re-enslaving escaped slaves.

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