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Charles Sumner: “Not to dislodge them is to leave the country a prey to a most hateful tyranny.”

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Not to dislodge them is to leave the country a prey to a most hateful tyranny.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes the urgent need to act against tyranny to protect the nation.

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