Charles Sumner: “Do I understand my friend as insisting that the denial of the…”

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Do I understand my friend as insisting that the denial of the franchise is consistent with a republican government?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner questions the compatibility of denying voting rights with the principles of republican government.

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Charles Sumner: “Do I understand my friend as insisting that the denial of the franchise is consistent with a republican government?”