Charles Sumner: “I would make the purchase an occasion of expressing sympathy with…”

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I would make the purchase an occasion of expressing sympathy with courage and fidelity under peculiar difficulties in the cause of our country.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner suggests that the library purchase should also serve as a gesture of sympathy and support for a cause.

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