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God save me from participation in this disastrous wrong, and may He temper it kindly to our afflicted country!
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “God save me from participation in this disastrous wrong, and may He temper it kindly to our afflicted country!”
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Sumner expresses a personal plea to avoid complicity in a wrong that harms the country.
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