Charles Sumner: “And this tax, which cannot be named without awakening just…”

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And this tax, which cannot be named without awakening just condemnation, you are asked to make an American institution.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses strong condemnation of the proposed tax on books, urging against its acceptance in American society.

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Charles Sumner: “And this tax, which cannot be named without awakening just condemnation, you are asked to make an American institution.”