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Charles Sumner: “Wherever in the Rebel States there is a truly loyal citizen, loving the Union, there is a victim who may be called to…”

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Wherever in the Rebel States there is a truly loyal citizen, loving the Union, there is a victim who may be called to suffer at any moment from the distempered spirit which now rules.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that loyal citizens in the Rebel States are at constant risk of suffering due to the prevailing hostile spirit.

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