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I doubt whether you can find a diplomatic paper anywhere in which any person undertaking to represent his Government has entitled himself Aide-de-Camp of the chief of the State.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner doubts the existence of any diplomatic paper where a representative uses such a title.

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