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Charles Sumner: “Next to the mystification from calling the Senate a court has been that other mystification from not calling the…”

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Next to the mystification from calling the Senate a court has been that other mystification from not calling the transgressions of Andrew Johnson “impeachable offences.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the confusion surrounding the classification of Andrew Johnson's actions as impeachable offenses.

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