Charles Sumner: “Let the interests of commerce, whose threads of golden tissue…”

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Let the interests of commerce, whose threads of golden tissue interknit the Nations, enlist the traffickers of the earth in its behalf.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner advocates for the interests of commerce to promote peace among nations.

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Charles Sumner: “Let the interests of commerce, whose threads of golden tissue interknit the Nations, enlist the traffickers of the earth…”