Charles Sumner: “Now the power plainly exists in the Constitution; it is to abolish…”

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Now the power plainly exists in the Constitution; it is to abolish Slavery, and it is for Congress in its discretion to select the means.

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Massachusetts

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He states that Congress has the constitutional power to abolish slavery and choose the means to do so.

More from Charles Sumner

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

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

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Charles Sumner: “Now the power plainly exists in the Constitution; it is to abolish Slavery, and it is for Congress in its discretion to…”