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If you approve one, you must approve eleven, and the National Government may crystallize into military despotism.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If you approve one, you must approve eleven, and the National Government may crystallize into military despotism.”
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Sumner warns that approving one military governor could lead to a slippery slope of military despotism.
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