Charles Sumner: “Grant that the Legion was constituted, can you extract from it any…”

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Grant that the Legion was constituted, can you extract from it any Apology for the original Crime, or for its present ratification?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner challenges the justification of the original crime by questioning the legitimacy of the Legion's existence.

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Charles Sumner: “Grant that the Legion was constituted, can you extract from it any Apology for the original Crime, or for its present…”