Charles Sumner: “Proclaim the policy of Emancipation, and all hope of a reconstruction…”

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Proclaim the policy of Emancipation, and all hope of a reconstruction of the Union will be crushed out.

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Massachusetts

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He warns that proclaiming Emancipation would destroy hopes for reconstructing the Union.

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Charles Sumner: “Proclaim the policy of Emancipation, and all hope of a reconstruction of the Union will be crushed out.”