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My colleague, in his joy on the occasion, exclaimed, “This is the greatest vote that has been taken on this continent!” He felt, I felt, we all felt, that the question of the suffrage was then and there secured.
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Sumner shares the excitement of a colleague over a pivotal vote that secured suffrage rights.
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