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Instead of scorning the violence which is menaced, we are asked to cringe before it.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Instead of scorning the violence which is menaced, we are asked to cringe before it.”
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Sumner criticizes the call for submission to violence instead of standing against it.
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