Charles Sumner: “Each instance was the occasion of new exasperations on both sides…”

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Each instance was the occasion of new exasperations on both sides, which were skilfully employed by wicked conspirators “to fire the Southern heart.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner discusses how each incident related to slavery heightened tensions between the North and South, manipulated by conspirators.

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Charles Sumner: “Each instance was the occasion of new exasperations on both sides, which were skilfully employed by wicked conspirators…”