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Charles Sumner: “We are not surprised that he should be hailed as hero and saint, for his proposed war on everything sacred and divine…”

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We are not surprised that he should be hailed as hero and saint, for his proposed war on everything sacred and divine, by that Pandemonium where the blasphemous Garrison, and Parker, and Andrews, with their runaway negroes and masculine women, congregate.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner critiques the support given to those he views as blasphemous.

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