Charles Sumner: “Besides, what am I, what is any man among the living or among the…”

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Besides, what am I, what is any man among the living or among the dead, compared with the question before us?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner reflects on the insignificance of individual lives compared to the greater moral questions at stake.

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Charles Sumner: “Besides, what am I, what is any man among the living or among the dead, compared with the question before us?”