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Charles Sumner: “Yet more apparent is the absurdity of this threat, when we consider how it is to be accomplished.”

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Yet more apparent is the absurdity of this threat, when we consider how it is to be accomplished.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner highlights the absurdity of the threat of disunion by examining its feasibility.

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