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Charles Sumner: “But this would be sacrificed at once, did we submit its existence to the conditions proposed.”

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But this would be sacrificed at once, did we submit its existence to the conditions proposed.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that the proposed conditions would jeopardize the existence of the Republic.

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