Charles Sumner: “Our country’s cause recently triumphant in bloodiest war was Liberty…”

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Our country’s cause recently triumphant in bloodiest war was Liberty and Equality, the declared heritage of all mankind.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner speaks to the ideals of Liberty and Equality that emerged from the Civil War.

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Charles Sumner: “Our country’s cause recently triumphant in bloodiest war was Liberty and Equality, the declared heritage of all mankind.”