Charles Sumner: “Knowing our honored guest by his life, I am sure that to him war is…”

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Knowing our honored guest by his life, I am sure that to him war is detestable, while Republican Government is his aspiration for France.

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Here, Sumner describes his guest's aversion to war and aspiration for a Republican government in France.

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