Charles Sumner: “Let us summon to our sides the majestic forms of those civil heroes…”

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Let us summon to our sides the majestic forms of those civil heroes whose firmness in council was equalled only by the firmness of Washington in war.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner invokes the memory of civil heroes to inspire current efforts for justice.

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