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Charles Sumner: “The whole slaveholding Propaganda of the Senate might dash themselves against it in a compact body, without breaking the…”

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The whole slaveholding Propaganda of the Senate might dash themselves against it in a compact body, without breaking the smallest fibre of any of its various parts.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts the strength of his arguments against slavery, suggesting they are unbreakable.

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