Charles Sumner: “To make it so, they seem determined to goad them to desperation, in…”

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To make it so, they seem determined to goad them to desperation, in order to have an excuse to turn upon and annihilate them.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner accuses Southerners of provoking freedmen to justify violence against them.

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Charles Sumner: “To make it so, they seem determined to goad them to desperation, in order to have an excuse to turn upon and annihilate…”