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what is the message of Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts in the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856

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The long speech argued for the immediate admission of Kansas as a free state and went on to denounce the "Slave Power"—the political arm of the slave owners. Their goal, he alleged, was to spread slavery through the free states that had made it illegal.

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