Charles Sumner: “The Slavemongers may be a corporation in fact, but no such corporation…”

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The Slavemongers may be a corporation in fact, but no such corporation can find place in that august Commonwealth.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that slaveholders cannot be part of the ideal community of nations.

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Charles Sumner: “The Slavemongers may be a corporation in fact, but no such corporation can find place in that august Commonwealth.”