Charles Sumner: “No one of these States, by anything that it may do hereafter, can…”

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No one of these States, by anything that it may do hereafter, can escape from that far-reaching power.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that no state can evade the extensive powers granted to Congress regarding Reconstruction.

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Charles Sumner: “No one of these States, by anything that it may do hereafter, can escape from that far-reaching power.”