Charles Sumner: “Such was the strange beginning, illegal, unconstitutional, and…”

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Such was the strange beginning, illegal, unconstitutional, and offensive in every particular, but showing the Presidential character.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner describes the illegal and unconstitutional beginnings of a presidential action.

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Charles Sumner: “Such was the strange beginning, illegal, unconstitutional, and offensive in every particular, but showing the…”