Charles Sumner: “Anything else is sacrifice of the colored race; anything else is…”

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Anything else is sacrifice of the colored race; anything else is abandonment of an imperative duty.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes that anything less than securing civil rights is a betrayal of the colored race and a failure of duty.

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Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “Anything else is sacrifice of the colored race; anything else is abandonment of an imperative duty.”