It will be for impartial History to determine if our Quarreller, who treated his great office as a personal perquisite, and all his life long was against that Enfranchisement to which he put his name, does not fall into the same category.
Sumner posits that history will judge the President harshly for his actions and attitudes toward his office and enfranchisement.
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