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Charles Sumner: “A volume or oration could not add to the force of this simple statement.”

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A volume or oration could not add to the force of this simple statement.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that no amount of rhetoric could strengthen the truth of his statement.

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