Charles Sumner: “I will not see the colored race of this Republic treated with…”

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I will not see the colored race of this Republic treated with indignity on the grounds assigned by the Senator.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner refuses to accept the treatment of the colored race with indignity as justified by the Senator's arguments.

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Charles Sumner: “I will not see the colored race of this Republic treated with indignity on the grounds assigned by the Senator.”