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Charles Sumner: “Should this privilege ever fail in your new hall, or anywhere within its influence, then must you forget the great…”

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Should this privilege ever fail in your new hall, or anywhere within its influence, then must you forget the great example consecrated in the name of Roger Williams.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He warns that losing the privilege of free expression would mean forgetting the legacy of Roger Williams.

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