On the record
On one occasion the President announced himself a “Southern man” with “Southern sympathies,” thus quickening that sectional flame which good men hoped to see quenched forever.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “On one occasion the President announced himself a “Southern man” with “Southern sympathies,” thus quickening that…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner criticizes the President for aligning himself with Southern interests, which he believes undermines national unity.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Other voices in this conversation
