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In the charnel-house of history, with unclean things of the Past, it now rots.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In the charnel-house of history, with unclean things of the Past, it now rots.”
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Sumner uses vivid imagery to describe the historical consequences of oppressive laws.
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