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Charles Sumner: “The hardihood of political falsehood reaches its extreme point, when it is asserted that under Horace Greeley the…”

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The hardihood of political falsehood reaches its extreme point, when it is asserted that under Horace Greeley the freedmen will be reënslaved, or that colored people will in any way suffer in their equal rights.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner rebuts claims that Greeley's presidency would harm the rights of freedmen and colored people.

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