Charles Sumner: “It is larger than all the expenditure for agricultural labor…”

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It is larger than all the expenditure for agricultural labor, producing the food of man, upon the whole face of the globe.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the War System's costs surpass all expenditures for agricultural labor worldwide.

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