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... Sumner , no relaxation . Many of his contemporaries found him a person at once difficult to admire and difficult not to . Henry Adams was fond of him but Sumner's mind , he thought , was " a pathological study " ; it had " the calm of ...
... Sumner , no relaxation . Many of his contemporaries found him a person at once difficult to admire and difficult not to . Henry Adams was fond of him but Sumner's mind , he thought , was " a pathological study " ; it had " the calm of ...
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... Sumner sat trapped between his chair and a desk that was fastened to the floor , he rained a series of slashing blows on the helpless man's head . For the next three years Sumner was an invalid , unable to attend to his Con- gressional ...
... Sumner sat trapped between his chair and a desk that was fastened to the floor , he rained a series of slashing blows on the helpless man's head . For the next three years Sumner was an invalid , unable to attend to his Con- gressional ...
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... Sumner : " Is there no way to arrest the insane course of the President in ' Reconstruction " ? " From Sumner to Stevens : " Can anything be done to stop this wretched experiment which the Pres . is making ? ” From Butler to Wade ...
... Sumner : " Is there no way to arrest the insane course of the President in ' Reconstruction " ? " From Sumner to Stevens : " Can anything be done to stop this wretched experiment which the Pres . is making ? ” From Butler to Wade ...
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THE VICE PRESIDENT | 3 |
THE RADICALS | 35 |
OF HOPES DEFERRED | 49 |
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