I said that the election in the whole State was carried by a conspiracy reaching from one end of the State to the other, of which the candidate for Governor was the head, to obtain the control of the State, and by this means take the loyalists away from the protecting arms of Congress.
In this statement, Sumner accuses a conspiracy behind the election aimed at undermining loyalists and gaining control of the state.
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