Charles Sumner: “Nay, more, it is my conviction, not only that we can have specie…”

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Nay, more, it is my conviction, not only that we can have specie payments at that time, but that we ought to have them.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner insists that not only can the nation achieve specie payments, but it is also a moral obligation to do so.

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Charles Sumner: “Nay, more, it is my conviction, not only that we can have specie payments at that time, but that we ought to have them.”