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I am happy to let you know that he has no sympathy with Stanly in his absurd wickedness, closing the schools, nor, again, in his other act of turning our camps into a hunting-ground for slaves.
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Sumner conveys his approval of the President's stance against certain policies affecting schools and slavery.
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