I have said, that, before the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, even the Northern States were not so very kind and philanthropic towards this race, which is now under the peculiar care of the Senator from Massachusetts, as he would represent.
Sumner critiques the historical attitudes of Northern states towards African Americans before the Missouri Compromise.
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