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If you, Sir, were a colored citizen, would you not also thus write?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If you, Sir, were a colored citizen, would you not also thus write?”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner poses a rhetorical question to emphasize the perspective of a colored citizen regarding political loyalty.
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