Charles Sumner: “If not taught by the lessons of the late war, then be taught by the…”

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If not taught by the lessons of the late war, then be taught by the principles avowed at the very beginning of the Government.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner urges that the lessons of the Civil War should inform the principles of governance.

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