Charles Sumner: “The imperial proposition tended directly to the dismemberment of the…”

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The imperial proposition tended directly to the dismemberment of the Republic and the substitution of a ghastly Slavemonger nation.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns foreign propositions that threaten the integrity of the United States, equating them to a push for a slaveholding nation.

More from Charles Sumner

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

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Charles Sumner: “The imperial proposition tended directly to the dismemberment of the Republic and the substitution of a ghastly…”