Charles Sumner: “Rarely have I entered upon any debate in this Chamber with a sense of…”

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Rarely have I entered upon any debate in this Chamber with a sense of sadness so heavy as oppresses me at this moment.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses his profound sadness at the current state of debate in the Senate.

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

Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.

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Charles Sumner: “Rarely have I entered upon any debate in this Chamber with a sense of sadness so heavy as oppresses me at this moment.”