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Charles Sumner: “That question I leave untouched, contenting myself with the remark, that it is obviously the great question of the…”

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That question I leave untouched, contenting myself with the remark, that it is obviously the great question of the future,--at least one of the great questions,--which will be easily settled, whenever the women in any considerable proportion insist that it shall be settled.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner acknowledges the significance of women's suffrage as a future issue that will be resolved when women demand it.

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