Letter, 1867 July 30, Boston, [Mass.], [to] "My dear Sir," [South Carolina].

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Letter, 1867 July 30, Boston, [Mass.], [to] "My dear Sir," [South Carolina].

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Contending that the election of a competent black Senator and one or two Congressmen from South Carolina "would ... mark the era or reconciliation [and] ... would make any retreat from our present position impossible."

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...