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Charles Sumner: “I have watched with interest your generous fund for the relief and liberation of Kansas, now insulted, trodden down…”

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I have watched with interest your generous fund for the relief and liberation of Kansas, now insulted, trodden down, torn, and enslaved by the President of the United States, acting as the tool of the tyrannical Slave Oligarchy.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner speaks out against the oppression of Kansas and the role of the President in it.

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