Charles Sumner: “I repeat, that General Lee and Wade Hampton are the two most popular…”

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I repeat, that General Lee and Wade Hampton are the two most popular and best loved men in the South to-day.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner identifies General Lee and Wade Hampton as the most popular figures in the South.

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Charles Sumner: “I repeat, that General Lee and Wade Hampton are the two most popular and best loved men in the South to-day.”