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Charles Sumner: “At this moment our domestic relations all hinge upon one question,--How to treat the Rebel States.”

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At this moment our domestic relations all hinge upon one question,--How to treat the Rebel States.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights the critical issue of how to approach the Rebel States during the Civil War.

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