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Charles Sumner: “The Congress of Vienna, which undertook to settle the map of Europe, organized universal and perpetual intervention in…”

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The Congress of Vienna, which undertook to settle the map of Europe, organized universal and perpetual intervention in the interest of monarchical institutions and existing dynasties.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner critiques the Congress of Vienna for establishing a system of intervention favoring monarchies.

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