Charles Sumner: “The whole subject has become a twice-told tale, and its renewed…”

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The whole subject has become a twice-told tale, and its renewed recital will be a renewal of sorrow and shame; but I shall not hesitate.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner acknowledges the painful history of the subject but commits to addressing it nonetheless.

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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “The whole subject has become a twice-told tale, and its renewed recital will be a renewal of sorrow and shame; but I…”