Charles Sumner: “But yielding now, you will commit the very error of President…”

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But yielding now, you will commit the very error of President Buchanan, when at the beginning he declared that we could not “coerce” a State.

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Massachusetts

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He warns against repeating past mistakes made by President Buchanan regarding state coercion.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

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Charles Sumner: “But yielding now, you will commit the very error of President Buchanan, when at the beginning he declared that we could…”