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Charles Sumner: “Nothing could be stronger, although it is painful to think that it was true.”

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Nothing could be stronger, although it is painful to think that it was true.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner reflects on the painful truth of a particular situation.

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