Charles Sumner: “On this subject I have never spoken except with pain, as I have been…”

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On this subject I have never spoken except with pain, as I have been obliged to expose a great transgression.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses his discomfort in discussing a significant moral transgression.

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Charles Sumner: “On this subject I have never spoken except with pain, as I have been obliged to expose a great transgression.”