You can make this day more sacred and more historic, and do for it better than the Continental Congress.” Had Emancipation been spoken at that time, I cannot doubt that the salvation of our country would have begun thus earlier.
Sumner reflects on how an earlier call for emancipation could have changed the course of the nation’s history.
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Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
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