Charles Sumner: “But it cannot be that she acts wrong for herself or her children, when…”

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But it cannot be that she acts wrong for herself or her children, when in this cause she encounters reproach.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner defends Massachusetts's actions as just, despite facing reproach in their cause.

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Charles Sumner: “But it cannot be that she acts wrong for herself or her children, when in this cause she encounters reproach.”