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The Slaveholding conspirators were encouraged to sit in his Cabinet, where they doubly betrayed their country, first by evil counsels, and then by disclosing what passed to distant Slaveholding confederates.
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Sumner accuses the slaveholding conspirators in Buchanan's Cabinet of betraying their country through their actions and disclosures.
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