Charles Sumner: “Are you ready, while considering another question, to revive this…”

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Are you ready, while considering another question, to revive this debate, making it the accident of another, with which it has nothing to do?

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Massachusetts

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In this rhetorical question, Sumner challenges the appropriateness of reviving a debate unrelated to the current topic.

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Charles Sumner: “Are you ready, while considering another question, to revive this debate, making it the accident of another, with which…”