Charles Sumner: “Encouragement also may be drawn from the insufficiency of these…”

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Encouragement also may be drawn from the insufficiency of these parties as representatives of existing public sentiment.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner notes that the inadequacy of existing political parties reflects the public's sentiments.

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Charles Sumner: “Encouragement also may be drawn from the insufficiency of these parties as representatives of existing public sentiment.”