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Charles Sumner: “Give up the Standing Army and this considerable sum disappears from the annual budget.”

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Give up the Standing Army and this considerable sum disappears from the annual budget.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner discusses the financial implications of reducing the standing army on the budget.

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