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Charles Sumner: “And yet, Sir, Senators would take up the cast-off taxes of Great Britain, and do even worse.”

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And yet, Sir, Senators would take up the cast-off taxes of Great Britain, and do even worse.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner criticizes the idea of adopting British tax policies in the United States.

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