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Charles Sumner: “Therefore you are now determining whether impeachment shall continue a beneficent remedy in the National Constitution…”

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Therefore you are now determining whether impeachment shall continue a beneficent remedy in the National Constitution, or be blotted out forever, and the country handed over to the terrible process of revolution as its sole protection.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

This statement emphasizes the critical decision facing Congress regarding the future of impeachment as a constitutional remedy.

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