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Charles Sumner: “I start, of course, with the assumption, in which you will all unite, that this war must be brought to a close.”

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I start, of course, with the assumption, in which you will all unite, that this war must be brought to a close.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts the necessity of concluding the war for the benefit of the nation.

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