Charles Sumner: “If this can be done in small affairs, it cannot in large; for these…”

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If this can be done in small affairs, it cannot in large; for these yield only to moral influences.

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Massachusetts

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In this statement, Sumner argues that larger issues require moral solutions rather than mere tactics.

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

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

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

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

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Charles Sumner: “If this can be done in small affairs, it cannot in large; for these yield only to moral influences.”