Charles Sumner: “Can such tyranny, where the military spirit of our President finds a…”

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Can such tyranny, where the military spirit of our President finds a congenial field, be permitted to endure?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner questions the endurance of tyranny under the President's military-like governance.

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Charles Sumner: “Can such tyranny, where the military spirit of our President finds a congenial field, be permitted to endure?”