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Charles Sumner: “Wherever you look in the Rebellion, there you find the old Democracy, into which is absorbed John Bell and his…”

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Wherever you look in the Rebellion, there you find the old Democracy, into which is absorbed John Bell and his followers, arrayed against their country.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner claims that the Democratic party is fundamentally opposed to the Union during the Rebellion.

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