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Charles Sumner: “The party must be a unit; but it cannot be such at any mere word of command.”

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The party must be a unit; but it cannot be such at any mere word of command.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that the party's unity cannot be achieved through mere commands.

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