Charles Sumner: “Vote so as to vindicate the early policy of the Fathers, who organized…”

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Vote so as to vindicate the early policy of the Fathers, who organized the Prohibition of Slavery in the Territories.

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Sumner advocates for honoring the founding principles that prohibited slavery in U.S. territories.

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Charles Sumner: “Vote so as to vindicate the early policy of the Fathers, who organized the Prohibition of Slavery in the Territories.”