Charles Sumner: “Nothing can be truer than your statement, that multitudes of people do…”

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Nothing can be truer than your statement, that multitudes of people do not know what they sign, when they indorse the Crittenden propositions.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that many people are unaware of the implications of what they endorse.

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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “Nothing can be truer than your statement, that multitudes of people do not know what they sign, when they indorse the…”