Charles Sumner: “Wherever men are gathered into nations, wherever Civilization extends…”

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Wherever men are gathered into nations, wherever Civilization extends her beneficent sway, there will it be manifest.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner believes that the principles of civilization and progress will manifest wherever people gather.

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Charles Sumner: “Wherever men are gathered into nations, wherever Civilization extends her beneficent sway, there will it be manifest.”