Charles Sumner: “Even the soil, now so productive, would refuse its increase; for…”

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Even the soil, now so productive, would refuse its increase; for Nature herself would cease to smile amidst the alarms of servile war.

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Massachusetts

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This quote illustrates Sumner's belief that the threat of servile war would have dire consequences for the land itself.

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Charles Sumner: “Even the soil, now so productive, would refuse its increase; for Nature herself would cease to smile amidst the alarms…”