Charles Sumner: “The struggling people in foreign lands, now turned to us with hope…”

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The struggling people in foreign lands, now turned to us with hope, will sink in despair as they observe the disastrous eclipse.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner speaks to the hope and subsequent despair felt by oppressed peoples looking to America for inspiration.

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Charles Sumner: “The struggling people in foreign lands, now turned to us with hope, will sink in despair as they observe the disastrous…”