Charles Sumner: “I refer to the geographical position and configuration of our country…”

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I refer to the geographical position and configuration of our country, if not of the whole continent, marking it for one nation.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner refers to the geographical features of the country as indicators of its potential for unity as one nation.

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Charles Sumner: “I refer to the geographical position and configuration of our country, if not of the whole continent, marking it for one…”