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I would give the United States Treasury half I am worth to have Congress, the next thing it does on the subject, decide black suffrage as the ‘inexorable condition’ of readmission.
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Sumner expresses a strong desire for Congress to recognize black suffrage as essential for readmission of Southern states.
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