Charles Sumner: “I do think it excellent and well-timed, just what you ought to say…”

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I do think it excellent and well-timed, just what you ought to say, and no more,--but what no other man in the Senate would have dared to say.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner praises a colleague for their courageous speech that others in the Senate would not have dared to deliver.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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

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

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Charles Sumner: “I do think it excellent and well-timed, just what you ought to say, and no more,--but what no other man in the Senate…”