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If Slavery were out of the way, there would be no trouble from State Rights.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If Slavery were out of the way, there would be no trouble from State Rights.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner boldly states that the war is fundamentally about slavery.
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