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Charles Sumner: “I start with the further assumption, that there can be no separation of these States.”

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I start with the further assumption, that there can be no separation of these States.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner emphasizes the impossibility of separating the states during a time of conflict.

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