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shortly after his matriculation
Lovely inscription and autograph on the blank title in the hand of Moody Stuart dating to the year of the book's first release
] The Voices of Silence
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1856 SLAVERY. The Speech that God Charles Sumner Beat Unconscious on the Senate Floor! Exposition shortly after his matriculationOne of the most severe and acidic anti slavery discourses of the period. Sumners Crimes Against Kansas refer to the proslavery violence that was sweeping across the Kansas. He compared slavery expansion into the new States as the rape of a virgin territory and as a transparent attempt at building the proslavery voting block in Congress. The speech so incensed southerners that South Carolina Congressman, Preston Smith Brooks, beat Sumner to the point