Charles Sumner: “The proposition was amended, modified, mitigated, losing something of…”

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The proposition was amended, modified, mitigated, losing something of its offensiveness in form, but it still remained substantially offensive.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner acknowledges that while a proposal was modified, it still retained its offensive nature.

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