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Charles Sumner: “It is to meet the difficulties found to arise from a Vice-President becoming President, and then hearkening to the…”

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It is to meet the difficulties found to arise from a Vice-President becoming President, and then hearkening to the whisperings and temptations which unhappily visit a person in his situation, that we have been led to contemplate the necessity of change.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner discusses the need for change to address the challenges posed by a Vice-President who becomes President.

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