Charles Sumner: “To my mind, that proposition is founded in good sense, in prudence, in…”

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To my mind, that proposition is founded in good sense, in prudence, in a just economy of political forces.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner supports a legislative proposition that he believes is sensible and prudent.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “To my mind, that proposition is founded in good sense, in prudence, in a just economy of political forces.”