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Charles Sumner: “The slave-drivers may boast, that, if our cause has received support from honest men of all religious and political…”

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The slave-drivers may boast, that, if our cause has received support from honest men of all religious and political parties, theirs has tended in as great a degree to combine and conciliate every form of violence and illiberality.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He points out that while honest men support the cause against slavery, the opposing side unites various forms of violence and illiberality.

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