Charles Sumner: “No single man has ever so grandly struggled against the barbaric…”

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No single man has ever so grandly struggled against the barbaric tendencies of a frightfully debauched generation.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner acknowledges the significant struggle against societal decline.

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Charles Sumner: “No single man has ever so grandly struggled against the barbaric tendencies of a frightfully debauched generation.”