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In proposing concession we encourage secession, and while professing to uphold the Union, we betray it.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In proposing concession we encourage secession, and while professing to uphold the Union, we betray it.”
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Sumner warns that proposing concessions undermines the Union while pretending to support it.
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