Charles Sumner: “My experience teaches me the advantage, not to say the beauty of…”

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My experience teaches me the advantage, not to say the beauty of order, in the business of legislation, as in all other business.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes the importance of order in legislative processes, likening it to other forms of business.

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