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Anxiously, earnestly, the country asks for reform, and stands tiptoe to greet the coming.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “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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