Charles Sumner: “To cloak the overthrow of all law in Kansas, an assumption is now set…”

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To cloak the overthrow of all law in Kansas, an assumption is now set up which utterly denies one of the plainest rights of the people everywhere.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns the denial of basic rights to the people of Kansas under the guise of law.

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Charles Sumner: “To cloak the overthrow of all law in Kansas, an assumption is now set up which utterly denies one of the plainest rights…”