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The allegation that you lack experience as a manufacturer of arms, or in anything that can, as a man of business, entitle you to respect, is, I can affirm in all sincerity, destitute of foundation, and must proceed from ignorance or malignity.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that allegations against a manufacturer's experience are unfounded and stem from ignorance or malice.

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