Charles Sumner: “Here also is its great aliment; here are the seeds of the very evil it…”

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Here also is its great aliment; here are the seeds of the very evil it is sometimes vainly supposed to avert.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that military preparations can create the very dangers they aim to prevent.

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Charles Sumner: “Here also is its great aliment; here are the seeds of the very evil it is sometimes vainly supposed to avert.”