Charles Sumner: “The prevailing sentiment was typified in the conduct of George the…”

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The prevailing sentiment was typified in the conduct of George the Third, so boldly arraigned in the Declaration of Independence.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques George the Third's actions as representative of the prevailing sentiment against America.

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