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In Alabama, a simple person from Connecticut, peddling books, was thrust into prison, amidst cries of “Shoot him!
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Sumner details the imprisonment of a book peddler from Connecticut in Alabama, highlighting the extreme reactions against perceived abolitionists.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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