Charles Sumner: “With what consistency can you deny to the child equal rights in the…”

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With what consistency can you deny to the child equal rights in the school-room and then give him equal rights at the ballot-box?

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Massachusetts

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He questions the inconsistency of denying children equal rights in education while granting them rights in voting.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

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