Charles Sumner: “To what meanness of inquiry has not the judicial mind descended in the…”

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To what meanness of inquiry has not the judicial mind descended in the enforcement of an odious prejudice?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns the degrading inquiries of the judicial system that enforce racial prejudices.

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Charles Sumner: “To what meanness of inquiry has not the judicial mind descended in the enforcement of an odious prejudice?”