Charles Sumner: “Pitch cannot be touched without defilement, and all who lend…”

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Pitch cannot be touched without defilement, and all who lend themselves to this work seem at once and unconsciously to lose the better part of man.

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Massachusetts

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He warns of the moral corruption that comes from participating in unjust laws.

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