Charles Sumner: “Should we yield now,--and any offer is concession,--every Presidential…”

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Should we yield now,--and any offer is concession,--every Presidential election will be conducted with menace of secession by the defeated party.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that yielding to concessions could lead to future threats of secession in presidential elections.

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