Charles Sumner: “To all the promises and the pledges of that great Declaration are we…”

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To all the promises and the pledges of that great Declaration are we all pledged, whether as Nation or as State.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner states that all are bound by the promises of the Declaration of Independence, both as a nation and as states.

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Charles Sumner: “To all the promises and the pledges of that great Declaration are we all pledged, whether as Nation or as State.”