Charles Sumner: “With the overthrow of the Rebellion on the bloody field this…”

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With the overthrow of the Rebellion on the bloody field this pretension should have been abandoned and forgotten.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the defeat of the Rebellion should have ended certain pretensions of states.

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Charles Sumner: “With the overthrow of the Rebellion on the bloody field this pretension should have been abandoned and forgotten.”