Charles Sumner: “And now it is for us, their children, to keep this Unity, and to…”

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And now it is for us, their children, to keep this Unity, and to perform all the national promises thus announced.

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Sumner calls on future generations to uphold the unity and promises made by the nation's founders.

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Charles Sumner: “And now it is for us, their children, to keep this Unity, and to perform all the national promises thus announced.”