Charles Sumner: “But I do not vindicate the statute; I only explain it; and I add, that…”

On the record

But I do not vindicate the statute; I only explain it; and I add, that it has long since been banished from the statute-book.

Said by

Massachusetts

Source

Sumner clarifies that he does not support the statute in question, emphasizing its removal from law.

More from Charles Sumner

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

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

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

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

Other voices in this conversation

Charles Sumner: “But I do not vindicate the statute; I only explain it; and I add, that it has long since been banished from the…”