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Charles Sumner: “It is plain, therefore, that the reorganization contemplated by the President was in nature provisional.”

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It is plain, therefore, that the reorganization contemplated by the President was in nature provisional.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that the President's reorganization efforts were intended to be temporary and provisional.

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