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Charles Sumner: “Now, Sir, could I make my voice heard from one end of this country to the other, from Massachusetts to Louisiana, it…”

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Now, Sir, could I make my voice heard from one end of this country to the other, from Massachusetts to Louisiana, it would be to warn against that political combination which shows itself now in the proposition of the Senator from Kentucky.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses a desire to warn the nation against a dangerous political alliance.

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