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I have perused your eloquent and unanswerable speech on the Suffrage question, and need not say that it contains the noblest sentiments, to which all the faculties and powers which God has given me thrillingly respond.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner praises a speech on suffrage for its noble sentiments that resonate with him.

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