Charles Sumner: “It is hard to see this immense treasure wrung by taxation from the…”

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It is hard to see this immense treasure wrung by taxation from the toil of the people to pay these devices of a dishonest Democracy.

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Massachusetts

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He expresses concern over the burden of taxation on the populace to fund what he sees as dishonest political maneuvers.

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