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Charles Sumner: “Are we not witnessing a similar process, to end, I trust, in a similar disappearance?”

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Are we not witnessing a similar process, to end, I trust, in a similar disappearance?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner draws a parallel between the ship of Theseus and the changes occurring in the resolution.

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