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Charles Sumner: And our severity of judgment should be reserved less for the Southern States so much excited than for those at the North…

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And our severity of judgment should be reserved less for the Southern States so much excited than for those at the North who feed the flames.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner suggests that judgment should be more focused on Northern instigators than on the Southern states.

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