Charles Sumner: “The bills before you have already passed the other House; if they…”

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The bills before you have already passed the other House; if they become laws, as I trust, they will be the practical commencement of the “new order.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner discusses the significance of pending legislation as a new beginning for standardization.

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