Charles Sumner: “Alas, that such a cause, so beautiful in itself and so grand in…”

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Alas, that such a cause, so beautiful in itself and so grand in promise, was wrested from its original character by the passions of men!

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Massachusetts

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Sumner laments the corruption of a noble cause by human emotions and conflicts.

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