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Hereafter the Rebels should remember that their restoration was associated with the equal rights of all, contained in the same great statute.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that the restoration of the Rebels must be linked to the equal rights of all citizens.

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