Charles Sumner: “Secondly, I arraign it in the name of Freedom, as an unjustifiable…”

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Secondly, I arraign it in the name of Freedom, as an unjustifiable departure from the original Antislavery policy of our fathers.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns the current proposition as a betrayal of the original anti-slavery principles held by the founding fathers.

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Charles Sumner: “Secondly, I arraign it in the name of Freedom, as an unjustifiable departure from the original Antislavery policy of our…”