Charles Sumner: “For, Sir, be well assured, there is but one way of settling this great…”

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For, Sir, be well assured, there is but one way of settling this great cause, and that is by conceding these equal rights.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserted that the only resolution to the civil rights issue is through the acknowledgment of equal rights.

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