Sumner, always sensitive to any recognition of Slavery, saw in it an effort to commit Congress the wrong way, so that inaction on Slavery should be the policy of the war, when, to his mind, the sooner Slavery was attacked, the better.
Sumner critiques a resolution he believes undermines the fight against slavery during the war.
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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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