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Charles Sumner: To its tyrannical assumption of supremacy in the National Government we reply, that the Slave Oligarchy shall be…

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To its tyrannical assumption of supremacy in the National Government we reply, that the Slave Oligarchy shall be overthrown.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts the need to dismantle the power of the Slave Oligarchy in the National Government.

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