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As you detect no color in their money, you ought to detect no color in their votes.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “As you detect no color in their money, you ought to detect no color in their votes.”
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Sumner emphasizes that there should be no discrimination in voting based on race, as money has no color.
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