Charles Sumner: “Certainly I am justified in this conclusion, when I think of my own State; for it is within my knowledge that the…”

“Certainly I am justified in this conclusion, when I think of my own State; for it is within my knowledge that the statutes of Massachusetts, reduced to a single volume, as they now are, have, during a very brief period, been purchased by the people at large to the extent of more than ten thousand copies.”