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In New Orleans the Rebel mayor at the surrender to the national flag is once more mayor, and employs his regained power in the terrible massacre which rises in judgment against the Presidential policy.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner criticizes the return of a rebel mayor in New Orleans and the implications for national policy.

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