Charles Sumner: “It is larger, by more than five hundred millions, than the value of…”

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It is larger, by more than five hundred millions, than the value of all the shipping belonging to the civilized world.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the War System's costs are greater than the value of all shipping in the civilized world.

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Charles Sumner: “It is larger, by more than five hundred millions, than the value of all the shipping belonging to the civilized world.”