Charles Sumner: “You might as well tax words spoken upon the Royal Exchange as the…”

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You might as well tax words spoken upon the Royal Exchange as the communications of various persons living in Manchester, Liverpool, and London.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner uses a metaphor to illustrate the absurdity of taxing letters as if they were spoken words in a marketplace.

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Charles Sumner: “You might as well tax words spoken upon the Royal Exchange as the communications of various persons living in…”