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To that voice I reply, first, You ought not to do it, and, secondly, You cannot do it.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To that voice I reply, first, You ought not to do it, and, secondly, You cannot do it.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner responds to the call for colonization by asserting it is both wrong and impossible.
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