Charles Sumner: “It is true, I trust, that its agents love Freedom and hate Slavery…”

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It is true, I trust, that its agents love Freedom and hate Slavery; and have they not a right to do so?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses hope that the agents of the Emigrant Aid Company are motivated by a love for freedom.

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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Charles Sumner: “It is true, I trust, that its agents love Freedom and hate Slavery; and have they not a right to do so?”