As in times past there has been the cry, “No more Slave States! ” the cry now must be, “No more States with the word ‘white’!” I trust the Territories west of the Mississippi will take notice, and govern themselves accordingly.
Sumner calls for the rejection of racially exclusive state constitutions.
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