Charles Sumner: “If we examine the text of this statute, we shall find nothing to…”

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If we examine the text of this statute, we shall find nothing to sustain the rule of exclusion which has been set up.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner insists that the statute does not support any exclusionary practices that have been proposed.

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Charles Sumner: “If we examine the text of this statute, we shall find nothing to sustain the rule of exclusion which has been set up.”