Charles Sumner: “If the Supplementary Civil Rights Bill, moved by me, is not within…”

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If the Supplementary Civil Rights Bill, moved by me, is not within these accumulated powers, I am at a loss to know what is within those powers.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses confidence in the powers granted to him to support civil rights legislation.

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Charles Sumner: “If the Supplementary Civil Rights Bill, moved by me, is not within these accumulated powers, I am at a loss to know what…”