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Charles Sumner: “What sort of good name is that which has a cloud gathering about it?”

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What sort of good name is that which has a cloud gathering about it?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner questions the value of a reputation that is clouded by suspicion.

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