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Now, Sir, I have been from the beginning in favor of civil-service reform.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Now, Sir, I have been from the beginning in favor of civil-service reform.”
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Sumner expresses his long-standing support for civil-service reform, indicating its importance to him.
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