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[Quotation of Charles Sumner on freedom]
February 11, 1864
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Complete quotation reads: "Freedom always for all!" Marked Senate Chamber.
GLC02095.28
to unknown
31 May 1849
Regrets having to decline attending a meeting: "Consider me always as deeply interested in the cause, but as reluctantly compelled to forego participation in your meeting."
GLC02095.02
to Thomas L. Sprague
28 September 1851
Thanks Sprague, a schoolboy, for his compliments: "Through my mother, who recently visited your friends in Hingham, I have learned your kind interest in me, & the manner in which you have spoken of me in one of your exercises at school. The words of...
GLC02095.04
[Quotation of Charles Sumner]
5 September 1865
Complete quotation reads: "In the universe of God there are no accidents."
GLC02095.29
to T. P. Chandler
circa 1852
Writes about speaking in the Senate: "Had I made that speech, I would have taken a vacation of a week or more. Now I wait the Civil Appropriation Bill, when I shall move an Amendment, that nothing be paid [to] the execution of the Fug. Sl. Bill, but...
GLC02095.03
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