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Charles Sumner: “Nor can I disguise the conviction that better than any device of legal tender will be vigorous, earnest efforts for the…”

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Nor can I disguise the conviction that better than any device of legal tender will be vigorous, earnest efforts for the suppression of the Rebellion, and the establishment of the Constitution in its true principles over the territory which the Rebellion has usurped.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner emphasizes the importance of active efforts to suppress rebellion over financial solutions.

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