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I believe that I have said nothing which is not sustained by well-founded argument or well-founded testimony, nothing which can be controverted without direct assault upon reason or upon truth.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I believe that I have said nothing which is not sustained by well-founded argument or well-founded testimony, nothing…”
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Sumner defends the validity of his arguments and the evidence supporting them.
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