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What is worth doing is worth well doing; and if it be worth while to organize the finances of this Republic by the proposed banking system, it is worth while to do it well; and can you do it well, if, at the very moment of its organization, you leave its most sensitive part exposed to hostile influence?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues for the careful organization of the banking system to avoid vulnerabilities.

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