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Charles Sumner: “I am for the rights of both, to the end that we may have at last in the national capital Equality before the law.”

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I am for the rights of both, to the end that we may have at last in the national capital Equality before the law.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner advocates for equal rights for all individuals in the national capital.

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