Charles Sumner: “Now my vote shall help no new State to take a place in this Union…”

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Now my vote shall help no new State to take a place in this Union, with Senators in this body, unless purged of this poison.

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Massachusetts

Source

He declares his refusal to support the admission of new states that are tainted by slavery.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “Now my vote shall help no new State to take a place in this Union, with Senators in this body, unless purged of this…”