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Charles Sumner: “I know of no words of any language adequate to convey to you the gratitude I feel in my inmost soul towards you for your…”

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I know of no words of any language adequate to convey to you the gratitude I feel in my inmost soul towards you for your efforts and final success in defeating the bill for the readmission of Louisiana as a State into the Union, with the present flagrantly unjust and proscriptive laws and Constitution.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner conveys deep gratitude for efforts to defeat an unjust bill regarding Louisiana's readmission.

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