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Charles Sumner: “Did occasion require, I might go further, and minutely portray the imbecility of Southern States, and particularly of…”

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Did occasion require, I might go further, and minutely portray the imbecility of Southern States, and particularly of South Carolina, in the War of the Revolution, as compared with Northern States.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses a willingness to discuss the failures of Southern states during the Revolutionary War.

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