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Charles Sumner: “Not a Senator, loving Freedom, who did not feel on that day that a champion had come.”

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Not a Senator, loving Freedom, who did not feel on that day that a champion had come.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner reflects on the impact of a new champion for freedom in the Senate.

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