The power of removal, so sparingly exercised by patriot Presidents, was seized as an engine of tyranny, and openly employed to maintain his wicked purposes, by the sacrifice of good citizens who would not be his tools.
Sumner claims that Johnson misused the power of removal to further his own agenda.
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