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When, the other day, the Boston papers undertook to print them formally, people were shocked.… The 4th March will come with a fatal suddenness for all the plotters and expecters and adjustment-mongers.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “When, the other day, the Boston papers undertook to print them formally, people were shocked.… The 4th March will come…”
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Sumner describes the shock of the public when the propositions were finally published in the Boston papers.
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