Charles Sumner: “I insist that a State is not authorized, under the Constitution, to…”

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I insist that a State is not authorized, under the Constitution, to make any exclusion on account of color.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the Constitution does not allow for racial discrimination in voting.

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Charles Sumner: “I insist that a State is not authorized, under the Constitution, to make any exclusion on account of color.”