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Charles Sumner: “Considering these propositions with the best attention I could give to them, I have been impressed by their inadequacy…”

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Considering these propositions with the best attention I could give to them, I have been impressed by their inadequacy as a system at the present moment.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the inadequacy of certain financial propositions at the time.

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