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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
tle Howard, Oct. 28, soon after his return home,—declining, on account of his foreign citizenship, to engage as a partisan in the discussion of what was an American question. The Advertiser Dec. 26, 1842. undertook to apply the principle of the letter to citizens of Massachusetts and other Free States, who were, as it contended, excluded equally with foreigners from engaging in the Anti-slavery agitation. Sumner replied, in an article filling a column and a half of that journal, Jan. 10, 1843. wherein he urged with vigor and earnestness the several aspects in which Slavery was a national question. Its effectiveness appears from the fact that the editor prefaced it with a reply nearly as long as the article itself. Taking up the argument for the limited right and duty of the citizens of a Free State in relation to American Slavery, grounded upon the limited right and duty of a British subject towards it, Sumner asserted the moral duty of denouncing national sins, even where