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Charles Sumner: “I mean that Unity of Spirit--in itself a fountain of strength--which, filling the people of the North, shall make them…”

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I mean that Unity of Spirit--in itself a fountain of strength--which, filling the people of the North, shall make them tread under foot past antipathies, decayed dissensions, and those irritating names which now exist only as tattered ensigns of ancient strife.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner calls for a unity of spirit among the people of the North to overcome past divisions and strengthen their cause.

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