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Charles Sumner: “Without undertaking to apply this language in all its force to either of the parties convened at Baltimore or…”

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Without undertaking to apply this language in all its force to either of the parties convened at Baltimore or Philadelphia, it will be sufficient to say that they do not now embody, if they ever did, those principles which are accepted by large numbers of good men as vital and paramount.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that the major political parties do not represent the principles valued by many good men.

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