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First published 1864

Letter to Charles Sumner

by Lysander Spooner

Boston, 1864; Online Library of Liberty edition8 pages

Letter to Charles Sumner by Lysander Spooner is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.

Author
Lysander Spooner
First published
1864
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
8
Publisher
Boston, 1864; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

An 1864 letter from Spooner to Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Spooner faults Sumner for not condemning slavery as unconstitutional with enough rigor, and argues that politicians who accept office end up compromising the principles they held outside it. A short piece from the Civil War years.

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8 pages, 4 chapters, and about 2,734 words in the edition this archive serves.
Who wrote Letter to Charles Sumner?
Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) was an American individualist anarchist, abolitionist, and legal theorist. This archive holds 15 of Spooner's works.

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4 chapters · 2,734 words · free to read here

  1. A LETTER TO CHARLES SUMNER.
  2. About Liberty Fund
  3. The Online Library of Liberty
  4. Copyright Information
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Lysander Spooner 1808–1887

Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) was an American individualist anarchist, abolitionist, and legal theorist. He is known for establishing the American Letter Mail Company to compete with the United States Post Office and for authoring radical… Read more about Lysander Spooner.

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