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Charles Sumner: “I am sure that my friend from Ohio seeks the establishment of future security; but he will allow me to say, that to my…”

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I am sure that my friend from Ohio seeks the establishment of future security; but he will allow me to say, that to my mind he abandons it at the beginning,--he fails at the proper moment to require guaranties without which future security will be vain.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques a colleague for failing to require necessary guarantees for future security.

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