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Charles Sumner: “But during long months of menace suspended over the Free Soil of Kansas, breaking forth in successive invasions, the…”

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But during long months of menace suspended over the Free Soil of Kansas, breaking forth in successive invasions, the President folds his hands in complete listlessness, or, if he moves at all, it is only to encourage the robber propagandists.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner accuses the President of inaction in the face of violence against Free Soil in Kansas.

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