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It further remains that you here in Washington shall complete this equality of rights in your common schools.
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Sumner urges the completion of equal rights in education for all children in Washington.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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