Charles Sumner: “Few are so cold or philosophical as to regard with insensibility a…”

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Few are so cold or philosophical as to regard with insensibility a widening of the bounds of country.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner notes the emotional response people have to the expansion of their country's territory.

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Charles Sumner: “Few are so cold or philosophical as to regard with insensibility a widening of the bounds of country.”