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Anxiously, earnestly, the country asks for reform, and stands tiptoe to greet the coming.
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Sumner expresses the public's urgent desire for reform in governance.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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