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Here was no offer of compromise,--not even a complaint, much less a suggestion of corner-stone.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Here was no offer of compromise,--not even a complaint, much less a suggestion of corner-stone.”
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Sumner critiques the lack of compromise in discussions about slavery.
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