Charles Sumner: “And I know no better way to give our testimony to the end of the war…”

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And I know no better way to give our testimony to the end of the war than by stopping that taxation which was born of the war.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner believes that stopping war-related taxation is a testament to the end of the conflict.

More from Charles Sumner

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “And I know no better way to give our testimony to the end of the war than by stopping that taxation which was born of…”