Charles Sumner: “If we look into the text of the Manifesto and the speeches of the…”

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If we look into the text of the Manifesto and the speeches of the Cabinet, it is a war founded on a trifle, on a straw, on an egg-shell.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner describes the war as being based on trivial matters according to official documents.

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Charles Sumner: “If we look into the text of the Manifesto and the speeches of the Cabinet, it is a war founded on a trifle, on a straw…”