Charles Sumner: “Whatever is announced in the Declaration is essentially National, and…”

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Whatever is announced in the Declaration is essentially National, and so also is all that is assured.

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Sumner asserts that the principles outlined in the Declaration are fundamentally national in character.

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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

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Charles Sumner: “Whatever is announced in the Declaration is essentially National, and so also is all that is assured.”