Charles Sumner: “According to them, Slavery went with the Constitution, and was beyond…”

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According to them, Slavery went with the Constitution, and was beyond the control of squatters.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that slaveholders believed slavery was constitutionally protected and beyond local control.

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

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

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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

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Charles Sumner: “According to them, Slavery went with the Constitution, and was beyond the control of squatters.”