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All kinds of dignitaries came.
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Now general Anderson -- not the colonel
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who had surrendered the Fort four years ago --
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came and raised the U.S. Flag,
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four years almost to the day that they had taken it down.
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William Lloyd Garrison was there from the North,
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the great abolitionist who wept uncontrollably
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when he heard a small black children's choir
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sing John Brown's Body.
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And the very night of that ceremony,
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which was the 14th of April,
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they held a banquet of a sort in a building