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Charles Sumner: “Like every measure of essential justice, it will at once harmonize with the life of the community, and people will be…”

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Like every measure of essential justice, it will at once harmonize with the life of the community, and people will be astonished at the long postponement of an act so truly beneficent in all its influences, so important to the national character, and so congenial with the business interests of the country.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that just measures will align with community interests and be recognized for their benefits.

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