Sumner, from the beginning of his political career, showed himself the decided enemy of Slavery, and was marked by the opposite party as an Abolitionist, which was equivalent to subverter of public order, robber, and worse.
Sumner was a prominent abolitionist who faced significant opposition for his views on slavery.
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Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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