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Charles Sumner: “All this is easy to believe; for penny postage lends itself to all knowledge and to every reform.”

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All this is easy to believe; for penny postage lends itself to all knowledge and to every reform.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that penny postage facilitates knowledge and reform.

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