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Charles Sumner: “He is, moreover, an advocate of the One-Term principle, as conducing toward the proper administration of the law,--a…”

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He is, moreover, an advocate of the One-Term principle, as conducing toward the proper administration of the law,--a principle with which so many prominent Republicans have identified themselves that it may be accepted as an article of party faith.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner acknowledges the One-Term principle as a widely accepted belief among Republicans.

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