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If not by Act of Congress, let it be by a new Amendment of the Constitution; but it must be at once.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If not by Act of Congress, let it be by a new Amendment of the Constitution; but it must be at once.”
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Sumner calls for immediate action, either through Congress or a constitutional amendment, to secure rights.
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