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If representation were founded on voters, the States would care little, if Congress should annul all inequality in the elective franchise on account of color.
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Sumner posits that if representation were based on voters, states would be less concerned about racial inequalities in voting rights.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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