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- GLC#
- GLC05116.13
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 19 May 1856
- Author/Creator
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
- Title
- Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 32 p. : Height: 22.3 cm, Width: 14.6 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Sumner's speech was delivered in Washington, D.C. and published by the New York Tribune in New York City. Last page advertises and lists prices for different issues of the Tribune. Sumner declares, "...I fearlessly assert that the wrongs of much abused Sicily, thus memorable in history, were small by the side of the wrongs of Kansas, where the very shrines of popular institutions more sacred than heathen altar, have been desecrated; where the ballot-box, more precious than any work, has been plundered." Opposes what he calls the forcible introduction of slavery in Kansas, and its protection "under the formal safeguards of pretended law."
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