Charles Sumner: “Nothing short of that servitude which denies God-given rights can be…”

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Nothing short of that servitude which denies God-given rights can be more wretched than the servitude of an uncertain currency.

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Massachusetts

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He compares the wretchedness of an uncertain currency to the denial of fundamental rights.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.

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Charles Sumner: “Nothing short of that servitude which denies God-given rights can be more wretched than the servitude of an uncertain…”