Only the other day I presented the petition of the editor of the Boston “Recorder,” in which he was moved to protest against it in strongest terms, inasmuch as it disfranchised a race and offended against the Declaration of Independence.
Sumner highlights a petition against a law that disenfranchises a race, invoking the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
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