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If there be any person disposed to discourage it, I warn him that he departs from the duties of patriotism hardly less than if he discouraged enlistments.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If there be any person disposed to discourage it, I warn him that he departs from the duties of patriotism hardly less…”
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Sumner warns against discouraging support for the Emancipation measures, equating it to discouraging enlistments.
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