Charles Sumner: “It is not a military bill, or a bill to authorize Reconstruction by…”

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It is not a military bill, or a bill to authorize Reconstruction by military power; but it is a bill essentially civil from beginning to end.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner clarifies that his proposed bill is fundamentally civil and not military in nature.

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Charles Sumner: “It is not a military bill, or a bill to authorize Reconstruction by military power; but it is a bill essentially civil…”