Charles Sumner: “It shows how they are intending to press this measure through Congress…”

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It shows how they are intending to press this measure through Congress so as to obtain for Virginia the independence of a State.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns about the intentions behind a legislative measure that could grant Virginia state independence.

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