Charles Sumner: “Ourselves children of the Pilgrims of a former generation, let us not…”

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Ourselves children of the Pilgrims of a former generation, let us not turn from the Pilgrims of the present.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner draws a parallel between past and present immigrants, urging acceptance.

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Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

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Charles Sumner: “Ourselves children of the Pilgrims of a former generation, let us not turn from the Pilgrims of the present.”