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Such are the two grievances which are to justify disunion; and pardon me, if I venture to illustrate the irrational character of this remedy by an incident of scientific interest.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner illustrates the irrationality of disunion with a scientific analogy.

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