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I have no desire to precipitate the debate on this important question, under which the country already shakes from side to side, and which threatens to scatter from its folds civil war.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I have no desire to precipitate the debate on this important question, under which the country already shakes from side…”
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Sumner expresses his reluctance to engage in a contentious debate that could lead to civil war.
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