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In the name of State Rights, Slavery, with all its brood of wrong, was upheld; and now, in the name of State Rights, Caste, fruitful also in wrong, is upheld.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In the name of State Rights, Slavery, with all its brood of wrong, was upheld; and now, in the name of State Rights…”
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Sumner critiques the use of state rights to justify both slavery and caste discrimination.
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