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Is there any Senator who will toss twenty or ten millions of money to any State, unless he is satisfied that by doing so he can help put an end to the Rebellion?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Is there any Senator who will toss twenty or ten millions of money to any State, unless he is satisfied that by doing so…”
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Sumner challenges the rationale behind financial support to states during the Civil War.
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