Charles Sumner: “I laid down the paper, and still there seemed to press around me a…”

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I laid down the paper, and still there seemed to press around me a solemn, majestic anthem from a mighty organ.

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Sumner shares a vivid personal reflection on the solemnity of a moment he experienced.

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Charles Sumner: “I laid down the paper, and still there seemed to press around me a solemn, majestic anthem from a mighty organ.”