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Charles Sumner: “It is the gigantic Traitor and Parricide,--not for a moment to be trusted.”

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It is the gigantic Traitor and Parricide,--not for a moment to be trusted.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner describes a traitor as someone unworthy of trust.

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