Charles Sumner: “If you are for the one, you cannot be for the other; and just in…”

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If you are for the one, you cannot be for the other; and just in proportion to the embrace of Slavery is the divorce from Civilization.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes the mutually exclusive nature of slavery and civilization.

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Charles Sumner: “If you are for the one, you cannot be for the other; and just in proportion to the embrace of Slavery is the divorce…”