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Charles Sumner: “Not a bank, not a corporation, not an institution of charity, which would not suffer,--each sweeping multitudes into the…”

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Not a bank, not a corporation, not an institution of charity, which would not suffer,--each sweeping multitudes into the abyss which it could not avoid.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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He states that financial failures will impact all institutions, leading to widespread suffering.

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