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Especially must you apply it, when, as now, this wrong is part of a huge usurpation in the interest of recent Rebellion.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner stresses the importance of addressing wrongs, particularly those stemming from recent rebellion.

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