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I had the audacity then to assert the paramount power of Congress over the whole Rebel region.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I had the audacity then to assert the paramount power of Congress over the whole Rebel region.”
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Sumner asserts the authority of Congress over the Southern states during Reconstruction.
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