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To adopt it in its present form would be as if you voted the destruction of this Capitol, without providing any place for the meeting of Congress, or economizing the ruins you made.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To adopt it in its present form would be as if you voted the destruction of this Capitol, without providing any place…”
Editor's note · Context
He uses a metaphor to illustrate the importance of providing alternatives when abolishing systems.
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