If the people of
Massachusetts who now distrust you could have heard your voice in the Senate,
and witnessed the attention you received, they would leave everything to you,
knowing that your course would be for the best.
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[BLOG EDITOR’S NOTE:
Charles Sumner delivered his eulogy for former United States Senator Robert
Rantoul Jr. on the floor of the United States Senate on August 9, 1852, two
days after Rantoul’s death.]
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 287
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