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To favor no Amendment of the Constitution of the United States which will grant or allow any one or all of the States of this Union to disfranchise any class of citizens on the ground of race or color.
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Sumner advocates against any constitutional amendment that would allow states to disenfranchise citizens based on race or color.
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