Charles Sumner: “I write to say to you that you have given the heaviest blow you ever…”

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I write to say to you that you have given the heaviest blow you ever struck to the slaveholding oligarchy.

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Massachusetts

Source

Sumner conveys the significance of his speech as a blow against the slaveholding elite.

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Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.

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Charles Sumner: “I write to say to you that you have given the heaviest blow you ever struck to the slaveholding oligarchy.”