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1 Charles Sumner, Emancipation!: Its Policy and Necessity as a War Measure for the Suppression of the Rebellion 1 (1862)

handle is hein.slavery/emcnispy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: EMANCIPATION! ITS POLICY AND NECESSITY AS A WAR MEASURE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE REBELLION. SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES SUMNER, AT FANEUIL HALL, OCT. 6, 1862. FELLOW-CITIZENS OF MASSACHUSETTS:- Meetings of the people in ancient Athens were opened with these words :-May the Gods doom to perdition that man and all his race, who, on this occasion, shall speak, act, or contrive anything against the Commonwealth. With such an imprecation all were summoned to the duties of the citizen. But duties became urgent in proportion to perils. If ever there was occasion for these solemn words it is now, when the country is in danger,- when the national capital itself is menaced,- when all along the loyal border, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian ter- ritories west of the Mississippi, barbarian hordes, under some Alari of the South, are marshalling their forces, and when death is knocking at the doors of so many happy homes. If ever there was occasion when country might claim the best and most self-forgetful effort of all, it is now. Each in his way must act. Each must do what he can; the youthful and strong by giving themselves to the service ; the weak, if in no other way, by scraping lint. Such is the call of patriotism. This country must be saved. GOOD MEN AND GERMANS AND IRISH FOR THE WAR. Among the omens which I hail with gladness is the union which now happily prevails among good men in support alike of the State and Na- tional Governments,-forgetting that they were Democrats, forgetting that they were Whigs, and disregarding old party names, to remember

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