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Charles Sumner: “Of course, Sir, it is not true, as is complained by the Senator from South Carolina, with that proclivity to error which…”

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Of course, Sir, it is not true, as is complained by the Senator from South Carolina, with that proclivity to error which marks all his utterances, that men have been sent by the Company “with one uniform gun, Sharp’s rifle”; for it has supplied no arms of any kind to anybody.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner refutes allegations regarding the Company's provision of arms to individuals.

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