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Therefore, I ask, how can the proposed requirement be carried into execution? how can you bring back these runaways, when once in circulation on their perpetual travels?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Therefore, I ask, how can the proposed requirement be carried into execution? how can you bring back these runaways…”
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Sumner questions the feasibility of retrieving banknotes once they are in circulation.
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