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Charles Sumner: “While affecting to initiate honest proceedings for the formation of a State, they furnish to this Territory no redress…”

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While affecting to initiate honest proceedings for the formation of a State, they furnish to this Territory no redress for the Crime under which it suffers; nay, they recognize the very Usurpation in which the Crime ends, and proceed to endow it with new prerogatives.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner criticizes the lack of genuine redress for the suffering of a territory while acknowledging the usurpation of power.

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