Charles Sumner: “I have no personal wrongs to avenge: only a brutish nature could…”

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I have no personal wrongs to avenge: only a brutish nature could attempt to wield that vengeance which belongs to the Lord.

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Massachusetts

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Here, Sumner asserts that seeking personal vengeance is beneath the dignity of a moral argument.

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Charles Sumner: “I have no personal wrongs to avenge: only a brutish nature could attempt to wield that vengeance which belongs to the…”