Charles Sumner: “The wrong guarded by this pretension has yielded; why should not the…”

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The wrong guarded by this pretension has yielded; why should not the pretension yield also?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the wrongs associated with slavery have diminished, suggesting that the arguments for state rights should also diminish.

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Charles Sumner: “The wrong guarded by this pretension has yielded; why should not the pretension yield also?”