Charles Sumner: “The state of outlawry is the present condition of each, and this…”

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The state of outlawry is the present condition of each, and this condition must not be hastily relaxed.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns against hastily relaxing the current state of exclusion for former Rebels.

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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

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Charles Sumner: “The state of outlawry is the present condition of each, and this condition must not be hastily relaxed.”