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The Republic, which they could no longer rule, they determined to ruin.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The Republic, which they could no longer rule, they determined to ruin.”
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Sumner claims that the slaveholders aimed to destroy the Republic they could no longer control.
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