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Charles Sumner: “How easy for a party accepting this degradation to repudiate pecuniary obligations!”

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How easy for a party accepting this degradation to repudiate pecuniary obligations!
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner criticizes the moral degradation of political parties that abandon their financial responsibilities.

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