Charles Sumner: “Any seeming settlement founded in abandonment of principles will be…”

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Any seeming settlement founded in abandonment of principles will be but a miserable patchwork, which cannot succeed.

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Sumner warns that any settlement that abandons principles will ultimately fail.

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Charles Sumner: “Any seeming settlement founded in abandonment of principles will be but a miserable patchwork, which cannot succeed.”