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Charles Sumner: “Animated by that calm perseverance which is true force, your Majesty has known how to wait; but in the last four years…”

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Animated by that calm perseverance which is true force, your Majesty has known how to wait; but in the last four years you have carried to its highest perfection the arming of our soldiers, and raised to its full power the organization of our military forces.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner praises the perseverance and military organization of a monarch.

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