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Charles Sumner: “Do you wish to save the national credit, still imperilled by fatal injustice, and to secure gold as the national…”

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Do you wish to save the national credit, still imperilled by fatal injustice, and to secure gold as the national currency?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner links national credit to the necessity of addressing injustice in society.

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