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Charles Sumner: “Nor is it to be forgotten, that, dying in such a cause, his living voice is echoed from the tomb.”

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Nor is it to be forgotten, that, dying in such a cause, his living voice is echoed from the tomb.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the legacy of those who die for a cause continues to resonate beyond their death.

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