Charles Sumner: “I insist, that, whatever the original intention of the framers of that…”

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I insist, that, whatever the original intention of the framers of that clause, they did not leave it so as to cover fugitive slaves.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that regardless of the framers' intentions, the constitutional clause does not cover fugitive slaves.

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Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

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

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

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Charles Sumner: “I insist, that, whatever the original intention of the framers of that clause, they did not leave it so as to cover…”