Charles Sumner: “Only then will that citizenship by which you are entitled to the equal…”

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Only then will that citizenship by which you are entitled to the equal rights of all have its natural fruits.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that true citizenship leads to equal rights and their benefits.

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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Charles Sumner: “Only then will that citizenship by which you are entitled to the equal rights of all have its natural fruits.”