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Bayonets are no longer flashing there; bullets are no longer whizzing there; but the traitorous soul that inspired the Rebellion still fills the State with its malignant breath.
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Sumner reflects on the lingering negative influence of the Confederate spirit in Virginia after the Civil War.
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