Charles Sumner: “Territories, once possessing an equivocal and turbulent independence…”

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Territories, once possessing an equivocal and turbulent independence, feel new power and happiness in peaceful association.

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Sumner observes that territories once independent now find strength in peaceful cooperation.

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