It can vote millions for almost any purpose; but still I doubt if the Senator from Missouri would urge Congress, at this moment, to appropriate millions, unless he expected in this way to do something very positive against the Rebellion.
Sumner questions the motivations behind financial appropriations related to the Civil War.
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