Charles Sumner: “Of what value is the enforced consent of disloyal and barbarous bodies…”

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Of what value is the enforced consent of disloyal and barbarous bodies pretending to act for certain States at the dictation of military power?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner questions the legitimacy of actions taken by disloyal groups under military influence during Reconstruction.

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