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I think that the error of so placing it is as clear as the error made in tolerating Slavery.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I think that the error of so placing it is as clear as the error made in tolerating Slavery.”
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Sumner compares the error of placing suffrage under state control to the error of tolerating slavery.
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