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Charles Sumner: “Surely it is one thing to regulate, and quite another thing to destroy.”

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Surely it is one thing to regulate, and quite another thing to destroy.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner distinguishes between the concepts of regulating and destroying electoral rights.

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