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Charles Sumner: “Now, at last, by the death of Slavery, will the Republic begin to live.”

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Now, at last, by the death of Slavery, will the Republic begin to live.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He predicts that the death of slavery will mark the true beginning of the Republic's life.

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