Charles Sumner: “Any person, whosoever he may be, whether simple citizen or magistrate…”

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Any person, whosoever he may be, whether simple citizen or magistrate, who undertakes to uphold this wrong, seems forthwith to lose his reason.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that supporting slavery leads to a loss of reason, regardless of one's status.

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Charles Sumner: “Any person, whosoever he may be, whether simple citizen or magistrate, who undertakes to uphold this wrong, seems…”