Charles Sumner: “Still further, in its discrimination of the old States, it assumes a…”

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Still further, in its discrimination of the old States, it assumes a guise well calculated to tempt them into its support.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that the proposal's appeal to old States is a strategic move that could mislead them into supporting it.

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