Charles Sumner: “But behind this question, so trifling to the apologists of…”

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But behind this question, so trifling to the apologists of prerogative, as behind that of ship-money, stood loftily the same great cause.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner reiterates that significant causes often stand behind questions dismissed as trivial.

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Charles Sumner: “But behind this question, so trifling to the apologists of prerogative, as behind that of ship-money, stood loftily the…”