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The national flag is the emblem of loyalty, and the very question on which you are to vote in the present election is whether loyalty or rebellion shall prevail.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner frames the election as a choice between loyalty and rebellion.

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