Charles Sumner: “We do not intend to contribute, by any conduct on our part, to…”

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We do not intend to contribute, by any conduct on our part, to increase the devotees at the shrine of this new idol.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses a refusal to support the glorification of negative figures in politics.

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Charles Sumner: “We do not intend to contribute, by any conduct on our part, to increase the devotees at the shrine of this new idol.”