Charles Sumner: “It is you who have inaugurated anew that malignant sectionalism…”

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It is you who have inaugurated anew that malignant sectionalism, which, so long as it exists, will keep the Union divided in fact, if not in name.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner accuses the President of reviving harmful sectionalism that threatens national unity.

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Charles Sumner: “It is you who have inaugurated anew that malignant sectionalism, which, so long as it exists, will keep the Union…”