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But in all these aspects, from the beginning, we find but one supreme absurdity.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But in all these aspects, from the beginning, we find but one supreme absurdity.”
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In this statement, Sumner critiques the various arguments for disunion, calling them fundamentally absurd.
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