Charles Sumner: “In our Law of Slavery what is there to revere? what is there at which…”

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In our Law of Slavery what is there to revere? what is there at which the soul does not rise in abhorrence?

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Sumner questions the reverence for laws that uphold slavery, invoking moral outrage.

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Charles Sumner: “In our Law of Slavery what is there to revere? what is there at which the soul does not rise in abhorrence?”