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Charles Sumner: “Without this bill your original measures are imperfect, ay, radically unjust.”

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Without this bill your original measures are imperfect, ay, radically unjust.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner claims that without the bill, previous Reconstruction measures are fundamentally flawed.

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