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The principles which we have upheld in the Presidential election, as paramount to all others, let us continue to uphold and advance through the new organization now happily established.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

In this statement, Sumner encourages the continuation of the principles upheld during the Presidential election through the new political organization.

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