I do not speak unadvisedly, when I declare that no such end is desired by a single intelligent colored man; no such design can be gleaned from any word ever spoken by Charles Sumner; his amendment cannot by any reasonable stretch of the imagination be open to the implication.
Sumner asserts that no intelligent African American desires to infringe on the rights of others, emphasizing the integrity of his amendment.
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