Charles Sumner: “I will not allow him to exercise it, and then take my chance hereafter…”

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I will not allow him to exercise it, and then take my chance hereafter of applying the corrective.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts his refusal to allow a certain individual to exercise power, indicating his proactive approach to governance.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

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Charles Sumner: “I will not allow him to exercise it, and then take my chance hereafter of applying the corrective.”