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Charles Sumner: “Never, I think, from anything did I receive an impression of greater power and grandeur.”

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Never, I think, from anything did I receive an impression of greater power and grandeur.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses a profound impression he received from a powerful experience.

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