Charles Sumner: “If Congress fails to supply the needed means, vain is victory, vain…”

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If Congress fails to supply the needed means, vain is victory, vain are all the toils of many hard-fought fields.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that without Congressional support, military victories would be meaningless.

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Charles Sumner: “If Congress fails to supply the needed means, vain is victory, vain are all the toils of many hard-fought fields.”