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Charles Sumner: “Amidst all professions of submission, there was immitigable hate to the National Government, and prevailing injustice to…”

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Amidst all professions of submission, there was immitigable hate to the National Government, and prevailing injustice to the freedman.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner describes the underlying hatred towards the National Government and injustice faced by freedmen.

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