Charles Sumner: “In this business of Reconstruction he assumed to determine who should…”

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In this business of Reconstruction he assumed to determine who should vote, and also to affix conditions for adoption by the conventions.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner criticizes the President's control over voting rights and conditions for state conventions during Reconstruction.

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