Charles Sumner: “It is the will of Heaven that the two countries should be sundered…”

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It is the will of Heaven that the two countries should be sundered forever.… The day is passed.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses a belief that the separation between the two countries is divinely ordained.

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Charles Sumner: “It is the will of Heaven that the two countries should be sundered forever.… The day is passed.”