Charles Sumner: “For myself, if I stand with many, with few, or alone, I have but one…”

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For myself, if I stand with many, with few, or alone, I have but one thing to say: “No surrender of the Fort Sumter of the North!

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses his unwavering stance on not surrendering Fort Sumter, symbolizing Northern resolve during the Civil War.

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