Charles sumner kneels over the grave of his erstwhile assailant bully brooks to place flowers on it. Carl schurz looks out at him from behind a tree in the background. Caption: will the senator from massachusetts do this, to make his words good? “pile up the ashes, extinguish the flames, abolish the hate — such is my desire. ” — sumner's letter, july 29, 1872. Date: August 17, 1872, p. 633.
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