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Charles Sumner: “It is the young who open the soul with instinctive hospitality to the noble cause.”

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It is the young who open the soul with instinctive hospitality to the noble cause.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes the instinctive support that young people provide to noble causes.

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