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Charles Sumner: “If this bill is passed, the era of inefficiency and favoritism, hitherto prevailing, will be at an end.”

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If this bill is passed, the era of inefficiency and favoritism, hitherto prevailing, will be at an end.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that the passage of the bill would end inefficiency and favoritism in government.

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