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Charles Sumner: “Neither has ever striven to divorce the National Government from Slavery.”

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Neither has ever striven to divorce the National Government from Slavery.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that certain political parties have not sought to separate the government from slavery.

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