Charles Sumner: “The gauntlet is thrown down to heaven and earth, while a disgusting…”

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The gauntlet is thrown down to heaven and earth, while a disgusting Barbarism is proclaimed as the new Civilization.

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Massachusetts

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He condemns the Confederacy's values as a perverse form of civilization.

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Charles Sumner: “The gauntlet is thrown down to heaven and earth, while a disgusting Barbarism is proclaimed as the new Civilization.”