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To England he makes a passionate and pathetic appeal--more for her own sake than that of the slave, more for the sake of the future than of present effects--that she withdraw all favor and succor from Rebel slave-owners.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner passionately appeals to England to cease support for rebel slave-owners, prioritizing moral responsibility.

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