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Charles Sumner: “The answer of reason, convenience, and commerce was clearly against such enforced transportation.”

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The answer of reason, convenience, and commerce was clearly against such enforced transportation.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that reason and commerce oppose the enforced transportation of gold for coinage.

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