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Charles Sumner: “Be it our duty to treat this calamity of individuals as the calamity of all.”

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Be it our duty to treat this calamity of individuals as the calamity of all.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He calls for a unified response to individual suffering as a communal obligation.

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