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Charles Sumner: “More unhappy still was it that the good genius of England did not save this historic nation, linked with so many…”

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More unhappy still was it that the good genius of England did not save this historic nation, linked with so many triumphs of Freedom, from a fatal step, which, under the guise of “neutrality,” was a betrayal of Civilization itself.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner laments that England failed to prevent a betrayal of civilization by not supporting a nation linked to freedom.

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