Charles Sumner: “The truths of the Declaration are no longer “the generalities of that…”

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The truths of the Declaration are no longer “the generalities of that revolutionary pronunciamento.

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Sumner critiques the diminishing significance of the truths in the Declaration of Independence.

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Charles Sumner: “The truths of the Declaration are no longer “the generalities of that revolutionary pronunciamento.”