Charles Sumner said "The same Northern President, who did not shrink from unblushing complicity in the original outrage, now assumed another complicity." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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The same Northern President, who did not shrink from unblushing complicity in the original outrage, now assumed another complicity.

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Sumner criticizes the Northern President for complicity in the injustices of slavery.

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