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Charles Sumner: “How pungent, and yet how Christian, your rebuke of this sore iniquity of our time!”

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How pungent, and yet how Christian, your rebuke of this sore iniquity of our time!
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner praises the moral clarity and Christian compassion in a rebuke against social injustices.

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