Charles Sumner: “For a long time, again and again, I have insisted that those…”

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For a long time, again and again, I have insisted that those governments are illegal.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts his long-standing position that the governments in the Rebel States are illegal, emphasizing the need for change.

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Charles Sumner: “For a long time, again and again, I have insisted that those governments are illegal.”