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Charles Sumner: “It is well, at this moment, when a Great Crime is instigated and sustained by the National Government, that such a man…”

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It is well, at this moment, when a Great Crime is instigated and sustained by the National Government, that such a man, with courage which will not be questioned, and with sensitiveness to right which will not rest, should be summoned to grapple with the wrong-doers.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner highlights the importance of courage in confronting governmental wrongdoing.

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