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I agree with the Governor; and when I ask your attention to this outrage, I make myself his representative, as well as my own.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner aligns himself with the Governor's condemnation of the treatment of soldiers and the indignity faced by them.

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