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SUMNER (CHARLES)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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SUMNER (CHARLES)

Autograph note signed ("Charles Sumner"), to an unnamed correspondent (possibly Thomas C. Ryley): "Our cause has passed into a new phase. It is now the battle of ideas, & not that of arms. We insist upon Equality before the law, as the protection & safeguard of the new mode of freedom", one page, written on the central third of a folded 4to sheet (evidently a wrapper originally enclosing a packet), light dust-staining, mounted on an album leaf, narrow 8vo, Boston, 15 August 1865

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'THE NEW MODE OF FREEMEN': written when Sumner led the Radical Republicans during the Reconstruction, in their attempt to preserve Lincoln's legacy and defend the newly-won civil and voting rights of former slaves.

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