Charles Sumner: “It goes to show that they are not yet in any just sense reconstructed…”

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It goes to show that they are not yet in any just sense reconstructed, or prepared for reconstruction.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the current state of affairs indicates that reconstruction is not yet achieved.

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Charles Sumner: “It goes to show that they are not yet in any just sense reconstructed, or prepared for reconstruction.”