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Never has one word fallen from my lips asking for their punishment, for any punishment of the South.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Never has one word fallen from my lips asking for their punishment, for any punishment of the South.”
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Sumner states that he has never called for punishment against the South after the Civil War.
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