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Charles Sumner: “North Carolina is always considered less mercurial and violent than her Southern neighbor, with whom the Rebellion…”

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North Carolina is always considered less mercurial and violent than her Southern neighbor, with whom the Rebellion began; but this slow and staid State is now disturbed by bad spirits, menacing revolution and blood.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner contrasts North Carolina's historical stability with its current turmoil due to revolutionary threats.

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