Charles Sumner: “I cannot by my vote consent that there shall be two additional…”

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I cannot by my vote consent that there shall be two additional slaveholding Senators for another generation.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses his firm opposition to the idea of adding more slaveholding Senators to Congress.

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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

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Charles Sumner: “I cannot by my vote consent that there shall be two additional slaveholding Senators for another generation.”