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If you read this proposition, you will find it crude and ill-shaped,--a jargon of bad grammar, a jumble and hodge-podge of words,--harmonizing poorly with the accurate text of our Constitution.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If you read this proposition, you will find it crude and ill-shaped,--a jargon of bad grammar, a jumble and hodge-podge…”
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Sumner criticizes the poor quality of a slavery-related proposition, emphasizing its lack of coherence.
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