Now, Sir, I call upon the Senate to do for this far Western Territory the same in kind as was done by our fathers for the whole vast Northwest Territory,--to lay an interdict against all inequality of rights in original compact, not only deeper than all local law, but deeper than all local constitutions.
Sumner calls for the Senate to establish equality of rights in the original compact for the Colorado Territory.
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