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Charles Sumner: “Looking at these concessions, I have always found them utterly unreasonable and indefensible.”

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Looking at these concessions, I have always found them utterly unreasonable and indefensible.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses his belief that the concessions made during the conflict are unreasonable.

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