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Charles Sumner: “Only then will be established that Equality before the Law to which now, for the first time in our history, all…”

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Only then will be established that Equality before the Law to which now, for the first time in our history, all political parties are distinctly pledged.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that true equality before the law is now a commitment of all political parties.

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