Charles Sumner: “Our country must live in the atmosphere of those resolutions, or bear…”

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Our country must live in the atmosphere of those resolutions, or bear no life worth having.

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Sumner stresses the necessity of living by the principles of the resolutions for a meaningful national existence.

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Charles Sumner: “Our country must live in the atmosphere of those resolutions, or bear no life worth having.”