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The bill for Impartial Suffrage in the District of Columbia concerns directly some twenty thousand colored persons, whom it will lift to the adamantine platform of Equal Rights.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The bill for Impartial Suffrage in the District of Columbia concerns directly some twenty thousand colored persons, whom…”
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Sumner describes the bill as a means to elevate the rights of colored individuals in D.C.
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