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Charles Sumner: “So, too, may we bury the animosities, if not the badges, of the past.”

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So, too, may we bury the animosities, if not the badges, of the past.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses a desire to bury past animosities while acknowledging their presence.

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