Charles Sumner: “The Nation might pursue a Rebel as traitor or as belligerent; but…”

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The Nation might pursue a Rebel as traitor or as belligerent; but whether traitor or belligerent, he was always an enemy.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that regardless of how a Rebel is classified, they remain an enemy of the Nation.

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Charles Sumner: “The Nation might pursue a Rebel as traitor or as belligerent; but whether traitor or belligerent, he was always an…”