Charles Sumner: “It is an instinct upon which you can always rely, even when the…”

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It is an instinct upon which you can always rely, even when the conscience that ought never to slumber is drugged to death.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner speaks to the reliability of instinct even in times of moral slumber.

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