Charles Sumner: “Surely, Sir, if ever there was occasion for the exercise of this…”

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Surely, Sir, if ever there was occasion for the exercise of this right, the time had come in Kansas.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner believes that the situation in Kansas warranted the exercise of rights to resist oppression.

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Charles Sumner: “Surely, Sir, if ever there was occasion for the exercise of this right, the time had come in Kansas.”