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Charles Sumner: “If to this extent the year of jubilee has come, you have done much towards ushering it in, and have a right to be…”

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If to this extent the year of jubilee has come, you have done much towards ushering it in, and have a right to be specially glad and grateful that Heaven has been pleased to make you so potential an instrumentality in bringing about its beneficent designs.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner acknowledges the contributions of individuals in advancing the cause of freedom and expresses gratitude.

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