Charles Sumner: “Thanks to the immortal poet who has blasted forever this sickening…”

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Thanks to the immortal poet who has blasted forever this sickening enormity, and rendered its imitation impossible!

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses gratitude to a poet for highlighting the horrors of war, making it impossible to replicate such atrocities.

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Charles Sumner: “Thanks to the immortal poet who has blasted forever this sickening enormity, and rendered its imitation impossible!”