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Perhaps in all history there is no instance of such an opportunity lost.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Perhaps in all history there is no instance of such an opportunity lost.”
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Sumner laments the historical opportunity that was squandered during the Reconstruction era.
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