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Charles Sumner: “Duties are always for the living; and now, standing at the open grave of HORACE GREELEY, we are admonished to forget the…”

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Duties are always for the living; and now, standing at the open grave of HORACE GREELEY, we are admonished to forget the strifes of party, and to remember only truth, country, and mankind, to which his honest life was devoted.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner urges the living to set aside party strife and remember the values of truth and country.

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